Word: shell
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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What he saw in Madrid could only be wondered at--a girl practicing her piano the morning after a shell had passed through her house taking with it part of the living room wall and the top corner of the piano. "The will to live and laugh in this city of over a million people under fire, each person in constant danger, was to me a source of amazement." Langston Hughes is that kind of traveller who seeks after little, and, so, discovers much to wonder...
...monstrous building - as useless as if it was an empty shell...
Quarters for Lovers. In Warsaw's wintry grey days the sun is seldom seen. The facades of houses are pocked with shell marks, and the ruins of war are wherever the visitor looks. The people of Warsaw do not look. Hurrying by in their fleece-lined topcoats and heavy boots, the women often wearing slacks and boots, they are too busy struggling to live. There are long queues for buses and trolley cars. There are endless day-long queues at the meat and bread stores for the basic food available: round loaves of dark bread and long Polish sausages...
...discovery, made in 1953, caused little stir until a fortnight ago when Lindley's publicity-wise Shell Petroleum distributor got the press interested. Reporters and scholars flocked to the site. Sir Albert Richardson, president of the Royal Academy, traveled down to view the discovery, enthusiastically pronounced the paintings "unique." Said Egmont Lind, art restorer of Denmark's National Museum: "They are the only early wall paintings I have seen in England that have not been touched, apart from the deliberate disfigurement since the day they were painted...
...Britain's finances, the Suez crisis will cut two ways. Not only will Britain lose the money it makes selling oil from its Middle Eastern fields, but it may also have to shell out as much as $500 million to $600 million from its slim $2.2 billion gold-and-dollar reserves to buy oil in the West. Though Britain's treasury hopes to muddle through, its reserves will probably tumble to a new postwar...