Word: shell
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...French businessmen hopefully set up shop in Haiphong, waiting to see what would happen in the next eight months. Shell Oil Co., which supplies 70% of the northern market, frankly hoped that business would return to normal after a while. Said a spokesman: "We will try to continue our operations in the north." But the two U.S. oil companies in Indo-China, Standard-Vacuum and Cal-tex, were not so hopeful. Stanvac closed down completely in Hanoi, was only doing a small business in Haiphong. Caltex took out everything movable. Said one veteran Caltex man: "Our experience in China, where...
...Sept. 3. Quemoy was garrisoned and armed for defense and only defense. This was so by Washington's orders. Quemoy's artillery, provided and munitioned by the U.S., could turn the island approaches into a bloody hell, but it could not effectively shell the mainland. The Nationalist air force could patrol the coast and reconnoiter inland, but it was forbidden to machine gun or bomb anything it might see. All this was U.S. insurance against mainland Nationalist "provacation" of the mainland Communists...
...their fists and forearms with cotton twine, dipping the resulting gauntlets into gum and sprinkling them liberally with broken glass. Before a fight, the gum was allowed to harden until a man's arm became a club. There were no weight limits, no rounds-only a punctured coconut shell floating in a container of water. The fight continued until the shell sank, or until one of the boxers fell unconscious or dead...
Mendes-France is as anxious as anyone else that communism be met with strength. He is convinced that a strong France is vital to the interests of the free world. But he also knows that French foreign policy cannot be a brittle shell over a rotting core. For communism can breed in the rubble of economic distress as easily as it can overrun an unarmed Germany. The French premier has already begun to boost a standard of living that has revived far too slowly since the war. With a coldly realistic appraisal, he has trimmed France's foreign commitments...
Enclosed in one shell of cold plate glass and modernistic concrete blocks, the offices of Conant, his assistant and secretaries luxuriate in thick carpets and panelled walls. The physical plant seems intended to accommodate important events at a pace "perhaps five times as great." It is worlds apart from the comfortable tradition that pervades his former Cambridge office. In fact the only fixture that would look quite at home in either place is Conant himself, for he is among other things a Harvardman, and the great versatility that goes with that label will likely stand him in good stead...