Word: shell
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Baghdad on their way to friendly Jordan, then beset by fear of revolt within its own borders. Following Kassem's plan, Aref's men instead rolled into Baghdad at 4:30 a.m., seized the radio station, pulled all switches at the telephone exchange, and, lobbing a mortar shell through a back wall of the royal palace, mowed down the King and members of the royal household as they stumbled in confusion out the front door. Premier Nuri asSaid, cunning veteran of two generations of Arab politics and unflinching friend of the West escaped from his house disguised...
...faster. "It's harder to get into school now; yet the enrollment is larger, so our selection is better in all ways," he explained. "The boys are generally taller and stronger, too. The 6-ft. 4-in. and 6-ft. 5-in. guys in the middle of the shell are common now. In fact, it's getting harder all the time to find little coxswains...
Imaginative people have mulled the idea for years. Novelist Arthur Conan Doyle, who visualized the earth's shell as a living creature, made his fictional Professor Challenger poke a sharp drill eight miles down, called his story When the World Screamed. AMSOC's goal is to pierce the Mohorovicic discontinuity, which scientists call the Moho for short...
...would have been unthinkable a few years ago. But the new search for offshore oil has developed machinery capable of doing it. The rig that appeals to AMSOC is the Cuss I (named for Continental, Union, Shell and Superior companies), a 3,000-ton barge with a 98-ft. drilling derrick mounted amidships. The drill is carried on gimbals, so that heavy seas will not snap the drill pipe...
...turns into a snarling tiger ("His loins," says the program, "are heavy with solitude"), an arm-flapping eagle, a scared rat ("His heart is full of holes, like a cheese"). In a later scene he encountered assorted characters, including Romeo and Venus, who stepped from a giant pearl shell in a flesh-colored leotard. At one point he joined Death in a game of cards, with Eurydice's midriff serving as table. The deafening last scene found Orpheus hanging by his heels from the flies...