Word: shelled
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...pronounced Bay-keh-shee) was born in Hungary, and was still there in the 1920s, when he did the fundamental research now belatedly recognized. As a telephone engineer, he concentrated on the human ear and in particular the cochlea, the "snail shell" of the inner ear. For research he built models, bored through the temporal bone of a corpse so that he could observe with strobe lighting the effect of sound waves on the cochlea, which is linked to the eardrum by three small, movable bones of the middle ear. What he saw was that the cochlea reacts...
...broad economic indicators in which businessmen put store, few can jiggle their pulses more than the state of consumer spending. Because what the U.S. public buys accounts for two-thirds of all spending, the consumer has only to shell out an extra 3½% to give the same boost to the economy as a 15% rise in business spending or a 21% increase in federal outlays. Last week it was disappointingly apparent that, in the general pageant of recovery, the consumer is still waiting in the wings, refusing to come onstage to make the show an unqualified hit. September retail...
Forced Unity. As Franco often says, the principal accomplishment of his long reign has been peace. From the civil war, he inherited a shattered, shell-shocked nation-without money, industry, food or spirit. On the battleground where brother gunned brother, where international fascism battered international Communism, and where a generation of Western intellectuals bitterly fought for their Marxist illusions, Franco built a regime characterized by greyness, apathy and public order...
...group is a kind of Kingston Quintet, doing a spread of folk songs. American and foreign. All five play the guitar, and beyond that they diversify into a variety of instruments that includes five-string banjo, recorder, autoharp, maracas, a ten-string South American charango made from an armadillo shell, and a Nigerian talking drum. Their style is controlled and relaxed, with faultless rhythm, but minus Michael and United Artists, they could be any good college group...
...waged incessant war against what he considers bad design. One of his targets was none other than New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art; he was distressed by the museum's pride in a gold cup made by Benvenuto Cellini in the shape of an ornate shell resting on a dragon riding on a turtle. Shudders Gump: "It's really pretty horrible...