Word: shelled
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...time and space. They can study how the form of a flint knife, for example, slowly changed during thousands of years. And they can determine, for each period of pre-history, where, within the camping site, such tasks as the scraping of animal skins or the making of shell necklaces were usually performed. In the past, this kind of information has been for the most part ignored, and archaeologists have excavated prehistoric sites by removing in one operation layers as thick as five inches...
...general conversation and a good one when acting. He has a great big kettledrum laugh. He is afraid of airplanes and strangers. "He is all fun and jazz until a stranger comes in,'' says a onetime member of his staff. "Then he goes into that fat shell...
They range from Belgian teen-agers to businessmen who moonlight as soldiers; at least half a dozen Union Miniére du Haut-Katanga executives have reportedly doffed their dark business suits for camouflage outfits. One Elisabethville butcher sells meat in his shell-pocked shop all day, fights the U.N. most of the night...
...accused of hastening its own demise. "Perhaps the most significant, certainly the most tragic story of 1961," suggested the St. Louis Globe-Democrat, "is the fast dwindling influence of the United Nations. Its prestige has been disintegrating with a sickening speed, until now it is but a mocking shell of a great dream-'a world parliament to ensure lasting peace.' '' To the Dallas Times Herald, the U.N. was "looking worse and worse in what at best is a sorry spectacle...
...Biggest non-U.S. company: Royal Dutch/ Shell...