Word: shelled
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...dived into the mottled blue-green Aegean, and when she came up, all dripping and skin-soaked, the sea had yielded its finest vision since Botticelli painted Aphrodite on her shell...
...Nixon's opponents in the primary will be an extreme rightist (though not a Birch member) named Joseph C. Shell, now a Los Angeles Assemblyman. Shell is far from the stereotype of rabid radical--he is an attractive ex-fullback at U.S.C., still young, still blond--and he is well-financed since he married an oilman's daughter...
...American concern, the Breaux Bridge Oil Refining Co., recently learned what an Alliance for Progress amounts to in Guatemala. Organized by a Houston group with the backing of Shell interests, Breaux Bridge received a concession in 1958 to set up a $5,000,000 refinery-Central America's first-on Guatemala's Caribbean coast. Not long after construction began, Ydigoras personally issued an order that, in effect, forbade all Guatemalan consulates abroad to approve any shipping documents for Breaux. Breaux appealed to the Supreme Court, a tribunal capable of independence, and won an injunction. When the company began...
Half buried under a thick shell of earth and concrete in Cambridge, Mass., a great ring-shaped machine went into operation last week, humming softly while green lines measuring its power drifted across the face of an oscilloscope. Called the Cambridge Electron Accelerator, the machine cost $12 million (paid by the Atomic Energy Commission), is 236 ft. in diameter, and consumes enough electricity at full power to operate 40 medium-sized TV stations. Its practical use is nil. It will never freshen sea water, cure cancer, or solve any other specific problem of applied science. But in the hands...
...flames proved their undoing. They lost their protective cover, became silhouetted targets. An eight-man team of guerrillas, however, had successfully lobbed a 57-mm. shell (from a captured U.S. recoilless rifle) into the fort, setting it afire. The battle raged until morning, when three waves of government planes, some piloted by Vietnamese and some by Americans accompanied by Vietnamese trainees, finally appeared to bomb and strafe the fleeing Viet Cong. Not until early afternoon did Vietnamese paratroopers arrive; by then, the enemy had disappeared. At nightfall, however, despite the paratroopers' presence, the Communists had managed to remove most...