Word: shell
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...right lung was torn and there was a fair amount of blood in his chest. His spleen was ruptured and bleeding. There were about three quarts of blood in his abdomen. His left leg was almost amputated. His pelvis was fractured. He was not hit by an artillery shell in Viet Nam, as one might think from the extent of his injuries. He was wounded while riding a motorbike on the streets of our community...
...postwar director of West Germany's shell-shocked economy, Ludwig Erhard rejected the remedy that a great many experts recommended for such a situation-a rigidly planned economy. With the rubble all around him, he began extolling the virtues of free enterprise and launched what has since come to be known as the Wirtschaftswunder (economic miracle). As recently as 1961, Erhard publicly deplored the fact that "there are still traces of the economic planner's mentality in our economy...
Last week Jack got what Jack wanted, but it took an awful lot of desire. The course this year was Scotland's Muirfield links beside the Firth of Forth, a seaside torture pit that resembles Verdun after the battle. Bunk ers like shell craters pock the narrow fairways, and the thick, encroaching rough grows three feet high in spots. "You need a search warrant to get in that stuff," complained South Africa's Harold Henning. Adding to the misery, the howling winds dried the already fast greens to billiard-table speed. "It'll be the same...
...Maine neighbor, John Gatchell, as his oilskinned model. He rummaged junk shops to find the bell that served to symbolize a stalwart ship struggling across a boiling sea, only visible itself as a glimpse of whitecaps. It is a distant and different sea that splashes in watercolors in Shell Heap, with an angler bending to his catch while the breezy skies of Florida seem to whip palm fronds into an ominous rattle...
This year in Germany, coal will be replaced as the primary energy source for the first time-by oil. The oil boom, however, is of little benefit to German companies, because most of the petroleum is supplied and refined by international giants. These companies-Esso, Caltex, British Petroleum, Shell-have also steadily gained control of distribution in Germany until there was only one wholly German-owned company left, Deutsche Erdöl AG. Last week, despite initial objections by the Bonn government, shareholders decided overwhelmingly to sell that lone holdout for about $160 million to Texaco...