Word: shellful
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...city of Austin may not be able to survive another Texas win. No. 1 has been scrawled on every exposed surface in town, and post-victory celebrations reach near anarchy. For the extra police necessary to cope with the delirious fans, Austin's city fathers have had to shell out $7,500 in overtime pay every Saturday night. Still, no one is complaining. Indeed, when members of the university band strike up The Eyes of Texas Are upon You before the opening kickoff, they are not just tooting their horns...
...awry, there's not much to The Lacemaker. Goretta has established the mood through a number of endearing images: Pomme running to the salon with three melting ice cream cones, trying to keep them from dripping; Pomme interrupting a walk on the beach to brush off a sea shell; Pomme, still a virgin, lying nude in bed, her nightgown spread over the covers...
...scene is almost a daily occurrence. A Lebanese merchant who had abandoned his shop at the height of fighting in the 1975-76 civil war appears at the door one morning, surveys the damage and sets about the job of reopening. Raking out waist-high rubble and empty shell casings the merchant uncovers the rotting remains of an unknown man, stripped naked by brigands of who can say which side. The owner, a Christian, shifts his rake to his left hand and crosses himself with his right. Then he pushes the body to the gutter and covers it with some...
...cause of the changes can be traced, at least in part, to plate tectonics, the movement of the great crustal plates that ride on the earth's semimolten mantle and provide its solid outer shell. Some 45 million to 50 million years ago, the plate that carries the Indian subcontinent was pushing up into the underbelly of Asia, slowly thrusting up the massive mountain range now called the Himalayas. This new barrier to global wind circulation helped change weather patterns, altering average temperatures around the world. By about 14 million years ago, climates that had been tropical had turned largely...
With just minutes remaining in the contest the Crimson went into a defensive shell, hanging back in their own territory and kicking the ball away...