Word: shell
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Landes, a filet de boeuf Charolais sous la cendre garni renaissance, accompanied by a profound Chateau Gruaud-Larose en magnum 1952; an unassuming little hearts-of-lettuce salad with mimosa dressing. And for a windup, poires Mona Lisa-poached pears, swaddled in hot chocolate sauce, bundled into a pastry shell-trailed by a superb Dom Perignon 1955. The Ambassador toasted President Kennedy. President Kennedy toasted President De Gaulle. John Walker toasted the Mona Lisa...
...escaped down the darkened canal with their dead and wounded. "Everything we did went wrong." complained a U.S. adviser. A battalion of government paratroopers, assigned the job of blocking the Reds' escape route, was airdropped into the wrong position. And when government artillery at last started to shell the wooded Viet Cong positions, their rounds were zeroed in on their own troops, killed three of their...
...already evil is stirring-like a chick buzzard, in the author's fondly turned simile, already pecking its way through its shell. Chief evildoer is Randy's guardian, wicked Judge Ball. Under the terms of the will, Randy comes into full control of his money when he marries. The judge would find this awkward because he has stolen most of the money...
...After producing 40,000 fighters for the Luftwaffe during World War II, sharp-featured Willy Messerschmitt fell on hard times, turned unprofitably to making sewing machines and shell houses. Eventually the Bavarian state government moved in to protect $2,250,000 in loans it had made to Messerschmitt. It claimed 46.65% of the company's stock, left Willy an equal amount, and put the remaining 6.7% into trusteeship with the West German government. This week, with Messerschmitt now turning a tidy profit on the manufacture of F-104Gs and Fiat G91s for the West German air force, the government...
...predawn darkness, the ragtag irregulars set up roadblocks, sabotaged communications lines, and overran police stations all over the country. In the town of Seria, Shell Oil's Brunei headquarters, the rebels rounded up 55 hostages, formed them into a human shield, and marched them to a nearby police barracks. But when the police fired on the shield, both prisoners and rebels broke...