Word: shell
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...world's need for power grows. Right now, the biggest, the most expensive and the most melodramatic search is taking place in Europe's North Sea. Convinced that the North Sea covers the world's biggest bubble of natural gas, such major oil companies as Esso, Shell, Texaco and British Petroleum are scrambling to win a share of it, plan to spend $100 million on exploration and test drilling in the next three years. The stakes are so great (billions of dollars in gas sales to the Common Market) that last week the question of who owns...
...fine feeling for materials, he instills inanimate objects with Geist, then wrenches from them a whole range of emotions. His Soft Telephone, its mouthpiece dangling, its coin box regurgitating, is a sad sack in shiny black vinyl. A Soft Typewriter, its pearly Plexiglas keys hopelessly entangled, collapses into its shell with the mortification of a machine that suddenly finds itself ready for IBM's junk heap. Other objects in 22 materials along with some drawings. Through...
...times means anything at all, the races Saturday indicate that Cabot has the potential for a very good season. The varsity's clocking of 7:20 over the Henley course was nearly five seconds faster--over a shell length--than M.I.T.'s time in its victory over Yale and Dart mouth immediately preceding the Crimson contest...
...same cellular class as the inside of a man's lung. More recently, to study an approximation of what happens when smoke rushes past the tiny, hairlike filter system (cilia) of the human respiratory tree, the researchers have taken to using parts of the gills of hard-shell clams...
Ironically, however, what really ails the book is an excess of integrity. To work at all, a contemporary thriller must convince the reader that, beneath a thin shell of authentic background, all hell can and will break loose any minute. But Thayer is so faithful in rendering the Berlin situation of the near past that it is impossible to believe that anything more than another standoff will result from the tense confrontation between U.S. and Russian forces that he creates as climax. It is all a little like reading a cliff-hanging account of the Battle of Jutland. Instructive...