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Word: shell (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Arizona, but she was largely overborne by Apaches, mesas of filmed cacti and a soporific script. On G.E. Theater's The Bitter Choice, Anne Baxter was hopelessly involved-and tearily terrible-as an Army nurse whose deliberate anger was supposed to scalpel through a G.I.'s shell of apathy. As Social Lioness Dolly Madison trying to make a Washington comeback, a bespectacled and bewigged Bette Davis had her moments on Ford Theater, but Bette's vehicle, Footnote on a Doll, was far too rickety for the big Potomac. And Kaiser Aluminum's musicomedy jape...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: One Hit, Four Errors | 5/6/1957 | See Source »

...this Double Play-dome, seal themselves in with the plastic cover, and roll down Linden or Holyoke Street to the river, before hatching into the sun. Matrix Structures Inc. has the answer for spring escapism: Back to nature via the egg--a geodesical one with a tough vinyl plastic shell...

Author: By Stephen C. Clapp, | Title: A Stately Pleasure Dome | 4/23/1957 | See Source »

TURKISH OIL REFINERY with 65,000-bbl.-a-day capacity will be built for $48 million by U.S.-British-Dutch combine. With existing Turkish state plant, it will supply nation's entire oil needs. Mobil Overseas Oil Co. will have 37% interest, California Texas Corp. 34%, Royal Dutch Shell group 18%, British Petroleum...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Clock, Apr. 22, 1957 | 4/22/1957 | See Source »

Never Before. They rowed their light new shell as much as 20 practice miles a day, and while their Cambridge rivals performed a few conventional, delicate knee bends each day, they worked hard at weight-lifting and running. Last fortnight they made one 24-mile pull from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Aussie at Oxford | 4/8/1957 | See Source »

...North Koreans have broken through the Naktong line. An American platoon is isolated, surrounded. Says the lieutenant (Robert Ryan): "We walk out." Then comes a stroke of luck. A jeep comes roaring across an open field. Passengers: a bitter, combat-weary sergeant (Aldo Ray), and his shell-shocked colonel (Robert Keith), debris of a distant battle. The lieutenant takes over the jeep at gunpoint, loads the ammo on it, forces the sergeant to march with the platoon to Hill 465. But is the divisional HQ still there...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Apr. 8, 1957 | 4/8/1957 | See Source »

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