Word: shell
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Wyoming, have developed a monorail system to relieve weary pedestrians at large airports and shopping centers, and are designing shipping containers that can be used interchangeably in truck, rail, sea and air transport. Lockheed is also working on a 300-ton hydrofoil vessel for the Navy, designing a shell-shaped undersea workboat that will carry a crew around the ocean floor in search of oil and minerals, and perfecting an emergency system that will use solid-propellant gas generators to expel water from a disabled submarine's ballast tanks, enabling it to surface rapidly...
...water, the U.S. destroyer Boyd slipped in toward Japanese-held Nauru Island on the morning of Dec. 8, 1943. A U.S. fighter pilot had been- shot down within point-blank range of the island shore batteries, and the Boyd was bent on rescuing him. Suddenly, two 6-in. shells crashed into the forward .engine room, destroying half of the ship's power. Shellburst jets of water blossomed everywhere. The Boyd's skipper, Lieut. Commander Ulysses Simpson Grant Sharp Jr., unable to find the pilot, heeled the crippled destroyer about and began a nightmarish slow-motion escape through waters...
Considered by many "the team to beat" at the Olympic trials on Orchard Beach Lagoon in New York earlier this summer, the Harvard crew expected to have the most trouble with the University of California shell. The Vesper club won the finals, however, with the Crimson second, California third, and the Yale boat fourth. Before the trials, the Harvard boat had never even been behind in a race...
...oyster may be both a father and a mother, changing roles several times in the course of a year. In the best of all possible worlds, an oyster might live 15 years, but only one in 10,000 makes it to maturity. The tingle-snail can bore through the shell of a full-grown oyster and scoop out the meat in six hours. The starfish pries open the shell of the oyster and devours it. And of course there...
Erfan Ahmed of Burmeh-Shell Oil Company in Pakistan discounted any particular Islamic approach to economics, observing that economic development was "theologically neutral." He said Pakistan, an extremely poor country, is beseiged by the same problems and is aimng at the same goals as other undeveloped countries. Islam may give strength to the cause of educating the illiterate and of insuring the population against poverty, but it is not going to ease the uphill struggle, he said...