Word: shell
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Stroke Len Wheeler, for example, rowed stroke on a fair Exeter boat last spring. A slim, steady oarsman, he's almost the smallest man in the shell at 176 pounds. Behind Wheeler, on the starboard side, is Mike Metcalf, while Ned Brookfield holds down the number six slot. At five and four Leavitt has placed Darrell and Howle Cushing...
...keep away from him. With Jean married at last and with nothing to look forward to but chores, Howard does the natural thing: he commits suicide with his father's shotgun. When old Thede finds him, he lets Howard have another shell in the chest for good luck. Wife Rosa walks out on Thede, and when last seen, he is holed up alone in his kitchen in dead of winter, lighting a lamp for the window to show the world that the Clearwater Emersons are still kicking...
Athletic Director Tom Bolles announced yesterday that the H.A.A. and Friends of Harvard Rowing have given a shell to the Dartmouth crew...
Cornell has also sent a shell to Dartmouth...
...Fierce Advocate." In Minister Jean Letourneau, France has a well-oiled bearing, guaranteed not to run hot under pressure. Round, balding head, plump, round face exuding a brown cheroot beneath a small mustache, round eyes behind round tortoise-shell spectacles, 44-year-old Letourneau looks like the banker and businessman he was trained to be. He looks soft, but in fact is as smooth and hard as milled steel. During the German occupation he helped run clandestine resistance newspapers...