Word: shellful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...twelfth chime of midnight died out, a conch shell, traditional herald of the dawn, sounded raucously through the chamber. Members of the Constituent Assembly rose. Together they pledged themselves "at this solemn moment . . . to the service of India and her people. . . ." Nehru and Prasad struggled through the thousands of rejoicing Indians who had gathered outside to the Viceroy's House (now called the Governor General's House) where Viscount Mountbatten, who that day learned he would become an earl, awaited them. There, 32 minutes after Mountbatten had ceased to be a Viceroy,* Nehru and Prasad rather timidly, almost...
Born in Piacenza (in North Italy) in 1691, Pannini went to Rome at 26 to learn figure painting in the style of Salvatore Rosa. After classes, he would stroll out from the Eternal City for long looks at the ruins which ringed it like a crum bling shell. Tumbling, ivied walls in scribed with ancient names and victories, pillars overlooking the wilderness or sprawled broken like dead giants in the grass, and marble steps descending into the sod inspired the "Views" for which Pannini became famous. Perhaps his the spaciousness and sparkle of Canaletto and Guardi, whose pictorial celebrations...
...Even off the air, Bell sounds and looks like a hood just back from escort duty on a one-way ride. With his sneering voice goes a curling lip (with black, headwaiter mustache to match) and a martini-cold eye. But the yegg is just a softie under his shell...
...bigger earnings, only 67 showed decreases. Oil-profiting from an unprecedented demand sufficient to outrun supply for two years-set the pace. Typical six months' earnings: Sun Oil Co., $11,360,170-up from $4,360,212; Phillips Petroleum Co., $15,459,699 v. $8,002,179; and Shell Union Oil Corp...
Once an editor of England's Architectural Review and author of two Shell guidebooks to the English counties (at the moment he is doing another guide to Buckinghamshire), Betjeman is a deliberately "provincial" poet. He has an equal passion for industrial cities and for gaslit towns, entered by bicycle and artfully explored. In his prose Betjeman defends the dignity of places that humorists have poked fun at and social critics have deplored...