Word: shelled
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Viet Nam's townsfolk and peasantry have always been prey to tuberculosis, malaria, cholera and plague. Now they need modern doctoring, particularly orthopedic surgery, even more urgently, because they are frequent victims of Viet Cong shot and shell. The medical mercy mission was proposed by President Johnson early last year, and Dr. William B. Walsh, the persuasive head of the People-to-People Health Foundation (which sponsors the hospital ship Hope), agreed to run a pilot program...
Harvard won two other final contests, bringing its record for the afternoon to four wins in six races. The junior varsity heavies upset first-seeded Yale by a little more than a length, and the first freshman lightweight shell took a smooth and easy victory from Penn by the same margin...
...business for expansion, modernization, automation and research. Business must be profitable in order to attract investors to put up still more risk capital. Such high-profit industries as electronics and office equipment find it much easier to get capital than such low-profit industries as textiles and steel. Says Shell Oil President Richard McCurdy: "We have to earn profit to generate money. It is the first thing that investors look at." The result is the economy's cycle: profits create investments, which in turn create jobs, which in turn create wages and consumer demand, which in turn create more...
...hired as a tutor and companion for 14-year-old Leila Drew, promptly falls in love with the child's father, Kingdon, and earns the undying hatred of the mother, Catherine. Somebody has to die, and so Catherine gets clouted in the face with a sea shell and knocked down a treacherous embankment. After a lot of voodoo-dee-oo and slipping about in the tropical moonlight, Jessica comes through happily, and a sudden storm conveniently takes care of Catherine's slayer. Now then, what...
...first freshman lights beat Yale by five and a half and Princeton by seven and a half, while the second freshman shell took the Tigers by the amazing margin of nine lengths...