Word: shell
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...personal vendettas, he even managed to charm Joseph Stalin during his Moscow service, but at war's end found the aims of Communism and the U.S. "irreconcilable." Calm and courtly, Harriman became a bridge expert at Yale (class of 1913), coached crew and rowed in the same shell with Dean Acheson, later was an eight-goal polo player at Long Island's Meadow Brook club. Even today, dismounted, the slim six-footer is acknowledged by Hobe Sound (Fla.) residents to be a champion croquet strategist...
...Pevsner recanted, saying, "He is the only genius produced by art-nouveau." Gaudi, who urged that "we must not imitate or reproduce Gothic but continue it," based his studies on Catalan architecture and plant forms in nature. The results, scholars now recognize, intuitively anticipated many of today's shell structures, including the asymmetric churches by Mexico's Félix Candela...
...Standard Oil of New Jersey, the industry's front runner, increased profits 12.7%, to $320 million-another record quarter like the ones at Mobil (up 14.8%), Texaco (13.3%), Shell (13%), California Standard (10.5%), Gulf (10.1%) and Cities Service...
...Publicis in 1927, gradually expanded the business by piloting his own plane around the country in search of contracts. After World War II, during which he flew for the Free French, he had to rebuild Publicis almost from scratch. In the process, he picked up such major accounts as Shell, Colgate-Palmolive and Renault. He also gave the agency a profitable sideline by opening Le Drugstore on the ground floor of the Publicis building on the Champs Elysees, a venture whose success has led to a profusion of American-style drugstores across France...
...second freshman heavyweight shell from Harvard led Penn over the course until the last three-eighths of a mile. Penn's power broke this boat, which could not muster an effective sprint to match the Red and Blue...