Word: shell
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...crew battened below decks, its captain a captive of Australian Planter Ray Stacey, who, with the aid of native islanders, had seized the vessel at the Feni Islands, 80 miles to the southeast. Australia accused the Japanese of violating immigration laws, but the real charge was poaching pearl shell beds in waters which the Australians insist they own-a claim which Japan disputes...
...seen through a big telescope rather than by young lovers, the moon resembles a shell-battered World War I battleground. Clusters of craters are scattered across the satellite's cracked, rugged face like smallpox scars. Many are ringed by mountains up to 20,000 ft. high; some are more than 100 miles across and four miles deep. What caused these lunar markings? Astronomers advance two theories: the craters are 1) the shells of extinct volcanos, or 2) the result of meteorite bombardments some 4 billion years...
...word, courage," Samuel H. Beer, professor of Government, explained. "He is one of the few men never intimidated by England's monolithic party system, by Tory snobbism, by shot or shell, or even by failure. He is particularly remarkable because he has not always been right or free of vices...
...construction everywhere gave a measure of changing industrial tides. At Ashtabula, Ohio, Union Carbide broke ground for a $32 million plant to turn out titanium sponge. In New Orleans, a $7,000,000 Shell Oil building was nearly ready; nearby Kaiser Aluminum & Chemical got set for a $25 million expansion. Chicago's face was changing, with scores of new projects ranging from a $50 million medical center to the $46 million Lake Meadows slum-clearance project and a $6,000,000 pretzel plant for Nabisco. Nobody who toured the ribboning express roads around Boston could conclude that New England...
...mock hero of The Man Without Qualities is a thirtyish intellectual named Ulrich. an egghead so tired that he is little more than a spiritual shell. Echoing his nihilism is a chorus of earnest buffoons: a Prussian millionaire who yearns to be an ethical superman, a general who is a kind of military Mortimer J. Adler and wants to classify all the world's great ideas, a beautiful but muddled matron who thinks the quickest trip to heaven is on a cultural broomstick. Author Musil perches them all on the lip of a volcano-the years 1913 and early...