Word: shelled
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...world's first and biggest fleet of U-boats and the famous 420-mm. cannon, sentimentally called "Big Bertha" after his wife. Before World War I, Gustav thriftily licensed Britain's Vickers company to make Krupp time fuses, provided that Vickers paid him one shilling threepence per shell fired. In the turmoil of trench warfare, the shell count was forgotten. But after the bloody defeat, Gustav calculated that the British owed him 60 marks for every dead German soldier. He billed Vickers so, but settled for one-sixth as much as he asked...
...Shell Game...
...Your reviewer of this season's coffee-table books may dig big art books, but he obviously doesn't understand or like our innocent seashells [The Shell: Five Hundred Million Years of Inspired Design; Nov. 29]. Explain to him that all those hundreds of glistening shells that he thinks were polished and doctored actually came out of the sea just as Photographer Landshoff shows them...
...even though he has no garage, and for wounding Defense Minister Moshe Dayan last March, who was actually hurt in an archeological cave-in. After Israel's independence day parade last May, El Fatah crowed that "a suicide force managed to reach the rear of the parade and shell it with rockets and mortars. Our forces destroyed a number of tanks that were seen to go up in flames." This remarkable event was entirely invisible to Israelis and foreign dignitaries watching the parade. When a $1,000,000 fire damaged Tel Aviv's Lydda Airport in October...
While much of the blame must go to the performer, I feel most of the responsibility for this vacuum belongs to the director. He evidently has not bothered in the least to get anything more than a shell of a character from his actor. We get waving hands for nervousness; pained looks for sorrow, moody line readings for introspection. With no central character around, we must work too hard to find out what Horovitz is talking about. Finally we give up and watch the proceedings as we would a Sid Caesar sketch. While some of the laughs are there...