Word: shell
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...steeple, it has a steep, triangular roof shaped rather like hands folded in prayer. The triangle, Wright believes, is "the symbol of aspiration." ¶Pictures of a house Wright built in Phoenix last year for one of his sons. Made of concrete blocks, it looks like a snail shell somewhat flattened and supported on stilts. Says Wright: "It is in a citrus-orchard district and the orange trees make the lawn for the house. The slowly rising ramp reveals the surrounding mountains and gives security to the occupants...
...industry profits bubbled higher, oil shares came to life on the stock exchange. Shell's net of $30 million was up 52% from 1952 (when one refinery was closed by a strike); Phillips Petroleum scored a 23% gain. And while the Texas Co.'s earnings were only 2% higher (at $47 million), directors considered the outlook so good that they declared an extra dividend of 40?. Railroad stocks picked up with the news that Baltimore & Ohio, with nine-month earnings up from $18 million to $21 million, was raising its dividend by 25? to $1 a share. Douglas...
...trust in the U.N. "truce" and 30 skimpily armed Jordanian national guardsmen. Suddenly, Israeli artillery, previously zeroed onto target, opened up, and a 600-man battalion of uniformed Israeli regulars swept across the border to encircle the village. For the next 2^ hours the town shuddered under shell bursts and small-arms fire; villagers, screaming and milling, rushed out to the surrounding fields and olive groves...
Your contributing editor Alvin Josephy's junket produced an incisive report . . . However, Josephy's use of the label "progressive conservatism" is as valid as a label "conservative Communism." Conservatism, understood, needs no sugar-coated shell such as "progressive" to be palatable...
...island. Three shipwrecked Britishers live there: Philip, his wife Susan, and best friend Henry. Clothed in the dinner jackets and evening gown they were wearing when the ship foundered, these little corners of England brave the balmy wilderness with a pre-dinner coconut milk hour and post dinner coach shell fingerbowls. The total effect is Robinson Crusoc as revised by Noel Coward...