Word: shelled
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Shell Beach, Calif...
Verses like this, which today would hardly cause a raised eyebrow were they to appear in the Sweet Briar College literary magazine, burst like a sinful star shell in the stodgy gloom of Victorian England. Mothers clutched their daughters. Fathers bethought themselves of horsewhips. Staid critics, resorting to apoplectic prose, apostrophized the author as the "libidinous laureate of a pack of satyrs." But a youthful public in London lapped up copies of Poems and Ballads when it came out in 1866, and Poet Algernon Charles Swinburne became famous and infamous almost overnight...
...Standard Oil Co. (N.J.), N.Y.C., $100,000; Texaco Inc., N.Y.C., $100,000; Ford Motor Co. Fund, Dearborn, Mich., a nonprofit corporation supported by Ford Motor Co., $100,000; Socony Mobil Oil Co., N.Y.C., $25,000; Morgan Guaranty Trust Co., N.Y.C., $10,000; Dallas Clearing House Association, $10,000; and Shell Oil Co., N.Y.C., an undisclosed amount. General Motors Corp. was reported to have given $150,000 but declined to confirm the contribution...
...Only 50 miles from Kolwezi, Indian infantrymen probed cautiously forward, waiting only for the signal to head full blast toward the town. But the signal would not be given rashly, for the ragtag mercenaries threatened to blow up a huge dam and industrial installations, leaving the town a blackened shell. They might not be bluffing...
What's Foreign? Next week Shell's Wonderful World of Golf starts a series on NBC pitting American pros against foreign pros on foreign courses. It is so fussily produced that huge camera booms are camouflaged to look like natural vegetation. The host-commentator is Gene Sarazen. In the first match, Gene Littler plays against Scotland's Eric Brown at Gleneagles. Byron Nelson will take on Holland's Gerry de Wit at The Hague. The U.S.'s Dave Ragan will play against the Philippines' Celestino Tugot at Manila's Wack-Wack Golf Club...