Word: shelled
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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With three of the eight members of last year's Olympic team in the shell, the Midshipmen remained unbeaten for the season by stroking the mile and three quarter course in 9:42. Harvard did it in 9:47.4, and Penn, a badly beaten third, finished...
...Frost, his luncheon guest, as a sort of mute character witness. Udall angrily denied that he had meant to bludgeon money from the oil and gasmen. He admitted that he was a good friend of Evans', an official of Asiatic Petroleum Co., an affiliate of the Royal Dutch Shell group. But, said Udall, all that he had done was to tell Evans casually that he hoped to see him and "a few of his friends" at the Democratic dinner...
Fighting a persistent drizzle and a troublesome headwind, the varsity jumped to an early lead in the feature race and and was far enough ahead going into the turn to keep a few seats on the Tiger shell, overcoming the disadvantage of being in the outside lane around the bend...
...traced to seepage from septic tanks; probably a majority were spread from person to person within families. But when patients were asked what they had eaten 30 to 60 days earlier (because the virus plays possum for that length of time), a surprising number mentioned clams on the half-shell. The raw-clam fanciers, suggested Dr. Kandle, might account for as many as 250 cases...
...March of the Sierra Maestra, and orators described the heroic fight in glowing detail. On Havana street corners, groups of prancing militiamen fired their Czech burp guns into the air, and Jeeps draped with hot-eyed youths careened along the avenues. Communist-country correspondents were hustled off to the shell-pocked beachhead to view the wreckage of invasion-U.S.-made mortars, recoilless rifles, trucks, machine guns, rifles, and medium tanks. A few of the 400 captured survivors were shown on TV, while commentators jabbed jubilant questions at them. The government announced that on May Day, that day sacred...