Word: shell
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...elected, the new fraternity member must immediately shell out close to $200 or initiation fees and expenses. From them on, costs are pretty much up to the individual's own financial limits...
...unusual in itself and more unusual for Moss Hart. This time Hart is neither sandpapering comedy gags nor polishing dramatic commonplaces. He has been lured to the jungle of British Guiana, where an odd kind of missionary lives with his odd kind of family, and where there arrives, shell-shocked by civilization, a tense and neurotic English nephew...
...withering small-arms fire and showers of grenades, and the Red artillery caught them in the open. "Human flesh could stand no more." wrote A.P. Correspondent John Randolph. "The little green-clad figures leaped and ran again, but this time down the hill, away from the deadly shell fragments and screaming rock splinters...
Crimson sailors, the national dinghy champions, are picked to win the Shell Trophy this weekend in the biggest regatta of the fall season...
...hair-jewels, fancy ribbons, and stand-for-no-nonsense brushes. Hair is often short, but extremely becoming things are being done to manes and mops--much more sophisticated, often, than a short curly cut. Above all, they show the earrings, which can be enormous structures covering the entire shell of the ear or great suspensions of rhinestones like magnified snowflakes. Or pearls...