Word: shelled
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...other hand, of course, a team that gets off 57 shots in a game as the Crimson did against Northeastern could easily throw a goalie into a state of acute shell-shock and reduce the game to a rout...
...planets have come to life too. Venus sends waves which hint that the temperature under its clouds is much too high for earth-type life. Jupiter pulsates with many kinds of radio waves. One kind comes from an easily observable shell...
...flat shoes and baggy tweeds, she was one of the world's richest women. She had a personal income of $5,000,000 a year from the East Indies alone. Even after Indonesia won its independence, she was worth at least $100 million in real estate, Royal Dutch Shell stock, paintings and bank holdings...
...unstrung hero of the piece is 41-year-old Playwright Arthur Sumner Long, whose Broadway debut has left him slightly shell-shocked from the force of a direct hit. As unassuming as his play, Long, a father of two, admits he was even less prepared for a flop: "I wouldn't have dared to go home to Los Angeles. The children-they give you such a sendoff-you hate to sneak back tarred and feathered." A longtime TV writer, Long joshes about his labor pains with Never Too Late: "Eight weeks to write, six years to retype...
...takeover bidders, buying up company after company in the conviction that inflation would eventually make every one of them worth more than he paid for it. Into a series of holding companies, he has bundled some $70 million worth of investments that give him control of firms ranging from Shell Co. of Palestine, which supplies 40% of Israel's oil, to Old Bushmills, which distills Irish whisky...