Word: shelled
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...varsity could--and should--be going faster, but they have experience as an asset and I hope that will see them through," Cabot said. He said that the varsity was being slowed by a new shell, but added that this should pose no problem today...
...fame. He had a burst of popularity in the early '20s. and the Stuttgart exhibition, with 115 graphics made between 1911 and 1928, shows why. Most of them are scenes of World War I, sketched with a fury on plain brown wrapping paper. Their strident picturing of cavernous shell craters, socket-eyed cadavers, skull-like gas masks. bloody vines of barbed wire and battered nerves has much the same pitiless sting as Goya's gruesome series of etchings. The Disasters of the War. Man's shreds of nobility as well as his flesh rot away into humus...
...recently-molted cockroach sports a shiny new chitin shell, but he's still an ugly bug. The tower of education's "massive walls and large windowless areas" shone like alabaster in the reproduction. In fact they will be the familiar mottled red, broken most months by bare, scraggly Ivy vines. Before many years in the local air, the red will lose its luster, the mortar will turn dull grey...
...years past, Chevy's Corvette sports car could hardly stay on the same track with a serious-minded Ferrari. But the 1963 Corvette Sting Ray is new from its independent rear suspension to its fastback body shell. On a casual test lap, a Sting Ray zipped around the twisting, 5.2-mile Sebring course in 3 min. 12 sec. -beating the official track record set by Ferrari last year. Then came Ford with the hybrid AC Cobras, developed by ex-racer Carroll Shelby, with a light British body hiding a huge 350-h.p. Ford engine. The Cobras claimed...
...railways' 17,830 route miles accounted for only 4% of the total passenger traffic and only 5% of the freight; half of the 7,000 rail stations produced only 2% of passenger revenues. Beeching hired away executives from such well-run firms as Unilever and Royal Dutch-Shell, surveyed every British firm that spent more than $28,000 a year on freight. The finding: British business was bedeviled by nearly 200,000 different freight rates...