Word: shelled
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...case of the Sun, youth is fortunately supported by a very generous daddy. Cowles has sunk close to $2,000,000 into the paper and is willing to shell out much more to make it a success. For a month, the Sun will distribute 100,000 free copies a day while it tries to sign up as many subscribers as possible. At month's end, it will start distributing 100,000 copies to another group of potential purchasers. Then it will follow up with a big promotion campaign, including salesmen decked out in green blazers adorned with the paper...
...unleash deadly patterns of tiny steel pellets. In no other war has American weaponry so quickly matched the demands of a difficult tactical terrain. From the swamps of the Mekong Delta, where 30-ft. patrol boats packed with unsinkable plastic foam whisk along on water jets, to the shell-pocked "Rockpile" below the Demilitarized Zone, where six-barreled Ontos tracked vehicles rumble, the arsenal last week was in awesome action...
...having taught elsewhere, I am impressed by two qualities in New Yorkers. They are no more gifted-or less ignorant-than their peers elsewhere; yet they are certain that they must be. And they lead lives of exposure to abnormal and unremitting stimuli, against which their defense is a shell of aggressive, blase behavior. What catches their attention and wins their approval must be more aggressive, more shocking, more violent, but by no means necessarily more worthy, than this constant hyper-level of stimuli...
...Harvard lightweight sophomores captured the junior eight-oared shell title by defeating crews from Lowell Tech, Vesper, a Kirkland House squad, and another Crimson entry...
...little time for socializing. When she is not covering political upheavals in the city, she is usually chasing down front-line action. When Viet Cong bullets began spattering around her near Danang, she took pictures first, cover second. Once the sound of a not-too-near mortar shell prompted four Marines to fling themselves over her "protectively." Says she: "They're always doing cute things like that in the field...