Word: shell
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Moynihan and Ferris were nearly hit by a one-man shell and Moynihan had some trouble with a buoyant collar that became waterlogged...
Hammond's Baptists, hard-shell fundamentalist, use liberal doses of Barnumism that would make less exuberant Christians blush. A "battle" between two competing bus teams, spurred on by bands and flags, rocketed attendance last March 16 to a record 30,560. This fall's attendance drive has featured a man on stilts inviting squealing moppets into the church, free goldfish, and ice cream sundaes for sixth-graders. Past bait has included zoo trips, picnics, even horseback rides...
...those French films made in envious and inadvertently silly imitation of American crime melodramas. Director Henri Verneuil (The Sicilian Clan) works hard to duplicate every cliche of the genre, from a car chase right down to a breathless pursuit up stairs that wind like a snail's shell...
...list of DRI clients "reads like a list of who's who in American business," the New York Times reported. Eckstein says that included in the more than 600 clients are Union Carbide, Harris Trust and Savings, Shell Oil, Morgan Guaranty Trust and Xerox. Some of the firm's government clients are the President's Council on Economic Advisors, the United States Treasury and the Canadian Ministry of Finance...
...alone and disconnect life-supporting machinery. "It is done all the time," says New Jersey Neurological Surgeon Arthur Winter. In Denver Anna Mair made the decision two years ago after her son David, 10, had been hit by a truck. Realizing that he would "never be anything but a shell," she told doctors to let him die. Sometimes, as in the Quinlan case, the parents find the doctor unwilling, either for ethical reasons or fear of a malpractice suit. In Elyria, Ohio, for example, Randal Carmen, 17, lapsed into a coma after a football injury and doctors refused to give...