Word: shelled
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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S.A.O. killers went on to bomb unemployed Moslems queuing for relief at a social-security office and to shell a Moslem cafe with mortar fire. In Oran, where tough General Joseph Katz delayed an all-out offensive against the S.A.O. while awaiting additional French troops, Secret Army snipers fired on Moslems from the rooftops; European householders cheered...
...authors with the similarities of his predicament rather than the individuality of his struggle. Many novelists nowadays tend to upend art to write about predicaments instead of people, but war novels and madhouse novels survive even this treatment. No matter how pale are a novelist's people, shot, shell and psychosis will set them off in a fascinating dance that closely resembles life...
...bolted the spire into place. Supplier of the helicopter: the Royal Air Force, whose outnumbered pilots had to watch helplessly one night 22 years ago when 500 Luftwaffe bombers hit Coventry in the war's worst raid on Britain and reduced the 600-year-old cathedral to a shell...
Texaco raised its quarterly dividend from 40? to 45? on the strength of a 7% profits gain (to a record $115 million), and Shell Oil's earnings increased 10% to $38 million. Heartened by April's climb in gasoline prices, oilmen predicted continued gains for the second quarter. In a few industries, a combination of overcapacity, intense competition and high costs produced a less uniformly rosy picture. Among them...
...State Coliseum, blessedly free of interior supports and decorative gimmicks, not only serves as one of the fair's chief display areas, but will be used later for sports events (capacity: 20,000) and, Seattle hopes, national political conventions. A 3,100-seat opera house, built in the shell of Seattle's grimy old civic auditorium and lined with cherrywood and Italian marble, not only presents ballet and music to fairgoers (last week's opening night gala had Igor Stravinsky, the Seattle Symphony and Van Cliburn), but will serve as a new Seattle music center...