Word: shell
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Thing You Desire." The Christmas party is only one of many good things that began to vanish from the archdiocese after Shell's dramatic resignation as C.Y.O. director-general last fall (TIME, Sept. 13). He never told why he resigned, nor did his superior, Samuel Cardinal Stritch, but the reason is becoming as plain as the old Water Works on Michigan Avenue. Bishop Sheil, a generous and sometimes over-generous man, had undertaken a great number of ambitious projects and had spread his resources thin. His long-standing liberalism and impatience with reverse-collar bureaucracy had brought him enemies...
...CHILD OF THE CENTURY, by Ben Hecht. What one man's ego looks like spread over 654 pages: the playwright and scriptwriter flaunted his hard outer shell, his soft inner character, unconsciously explained why he rarely found "love, understanding or comfort...
...infantry rifle squad and stood in exposed position, directing fire. Several times he made one-man attacks on enemy bunkers, once with only a pistol and hand grenades. When his unit was relieved, he volunteered to stay on and continue fighting. He was killed by a mortar shell 48 hours after the battle started, but not before he had "personally accounted for hundreds of enemy casualties...
...voice has an ordinary sound, but high-pitched for the big frame that produces it. For all his years away from his rootland, he speaks with an unmistakable Midwestern twang. Absentmindedly he rubs a star-shaped scar near his right foot, one of the scars left by the mortar shell which gravely wounded him at Fossalta, Italy, in 1918 when he was a volunteer ambulance driver. Nick Adams, hero of many of Hemingway's short stories, was wounded at approximately the same place in much the same way. So was Lieut. Henry of A Farewell to Arms...
OVERSEAS OIL investment will soon get a big boost from Shell Oil Co. and Standard Oil of California. Shell, in association with Anglo-Iranian Oil Co., Ltd., will spend $40 million to build Ceylon's first oil refinery, turn out 1,200,000 tons of gasoline and other products annually. Standard will do the same for Hawaii by building the islands' first major refinery at a cost of $30 million, including facilities to refine 30,000 bbls. of oil daily, enough to take care of most of Hawaii's retail needs...