Word: shell
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...taxi driver. "We been hanging around the cab stands all day trying to figure out how to slip some dough to the prosecution." Said a truck driver in Portland, Ore.: "It's high time that somebody finds out what's happening to the $5.50 a month I shell out in dues." As Dave Beck headed back home to Seattle, he proclaimed that he would raise $1,000,000 to tell "the facts," but his own secretary-treasurer said he would oppose any such use of union funds...
...text nor a formal reference book, but a remarkable grafting of plastic surgery history and techniques onto a chatty life history of Innovator Gillies (known to colleagues as "Giles"). Its 2,300 illustrations comprise an unprecedented gallery of human faces and limbs deformed from birth, shattered by shot and shell, smashed in accidents, maimed by disease or burned to hideous unrecognizability. Yet his before-and-after sequences end with a happy improvement, and in many cases there is restoration to completely normal appearance...
...firms reporting record earnings: ¶ Shell...
...least until the war ends," in classic insular-paradise fashion by assuring him that, although she hasn't yet taken her final vows, her heart is already given to Christ. But "Allison's luck" in being marooned with a good-looking nun dents his ego only momentarily, for Japs shell the island and land off and on, and the emotional stalemate is overshadowed by a hide-and-seek fight for their lives, which takes all of Mr. Allison's frustrated energies...
...Hans and Fritz last week reacted with their usual aplomb. "Vot's mit diss nutty island?" demands black-haired Hans in righteous indignation. Just in time, an utter stranger saves the brothers from certain ingestion. "Only for you," towheaded Fritz thanks their rescuer, "ve vos on der half-shell." And so, as it has since their birth 60 years ago, another bit of nonsense fell off the pen of Cartoonist Rudolph Dirks to save the world's most durable delinquents of the funny page for more low jinks next week...