Word: shell
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...INTERNAL COMBUSTION NUTCRACKER gave Davis men quite a bang though it never went into full production. Walnuts were fed one by one into small cups mounted on a revolving drum. The drum turned the nuts against a saw, which nicked a hole in the shell. A tiny squirt of acetylene and oxygen was then shot into the hole. The nut, leaking gas, was dropped through a ring of flaming gas jets. The gas inside the nut exploded, blowing away the shell. "It was a humdinger," says Davis' Dean Roy Bainer. "Shelled 900 nuts an hour, and the meat just...
Last weekend, on a day's visit to Glen Welby, the 800-acre family cattle farm near Middleburg, Va., Philip Leslie Graham, 48, sat on the edge of a bathtub, leaned against a 28-gauge shotgun and fired a single shell through his right temple. He died instantly...
...some of the fees paid by Y.P.F. for drilling have been too high was tacitly conceded by Kerr McGee in last week's new contract, which calls for a fee of $16 per meter drilled, v. up to $26 in the old deals. But companies (such as Esso, Shell, Marathon) that got contracts to prospect point out that they have invested $60 million more than they got back...
...other by the U.N. Command, made up of 600,000 South Koreans, 50,000 U.S. troops, and small detachments from Thailand and Turkey. There is still some bloodshed in the 2,000-yd.-wide demilitarized zone on either side of the line. In their ceaseless search for shell casings and scrap metal, South Korean civilians blunder into old but still murderous minefields. Red agents, trying to sneak south, are shot or captured by U.N. patrols. Last November North Korean soldiers raided an unalert U.S. post, lobbed in grenades and killed one G.I., wounded another. "There's glamour in South...
They ground their beans in stone mortars, and since they lacked pottery, boiled their food with hot stones in gourds. They made attractive ornaments of stone, shell and bone, and their flutes prove that they enjoyed music...