Word: shelled
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Pravda's picture shows Venusnik as shaped like a snub-nosed howitzer shell, 80 in. long and 41 in. in diameter. Protruding from its body is an assembly of aerials that resembles a windmill, and a pair of wings that house scientific gear and solar batteries. Included in Venusnik's gear are an automatic thermostat to regulate temperature and orienting equipment that 1) prevents the vehicle from tumbling, 2) points its solar batteries constantly toward the sun. and 3) keeps its main aerial facing the earth...
...chairs or lying on the floor and will not even look up when they are spoken to. Confronted with this, even the most determined volunteers become discouraged. But if individual approaches fail, group activities--singing, playing checkers, strolling outside the ward--can sometimes draw a patient out of his shell and reaccustom him to communicating, at first without words, and later verbally...
...moves in to develop an area, they come racing in. They preach all over what to do, but they don't practice what they preach. They have ability, money, and prestige, but they need bold leadership. Cambridge and Harvard could be tremendous together, but they're in a little shell of their...
...books: The Strategy of Peace and Profiles in Courage. Some of the President's recent reading-Selected Works of Mao Tse-tung and New York Herald Trib-man Bob Donovan's Inside Story of the Eisenhower Administration-cluttered the big presidential desk. Beside them was the coconut shell on which Navy Lieut. Jack Kennedy had scratched a message asking for rescue after his PT boat was rammed and sunk by a Japanese destroyer during World...
Last week, carrying 580 passengers, the trim, 20,906-ton Santa Maria put in at La Guaira, the seaport of Caracas. The conspirators boarded the ship, arousing no particular suspicion, since young, male, single employees of Royal Dutch Shell in Venezuela often use the Portuguese line to travel...