Word: shellful
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...reveal) the humiliations and failures--worst of all, the destructive power--of those who seek a way out of the shell of restrictions and conventions, out of the pervasive boredom and the stifling despair, out of the painful marital situations and the endemic social falsity, into what they take to be a vibrant and desirable life...
...silence is eerie. Shell holes seem a natural part of the land. They are everywhere, vivid as footsteps in snow, unmistakable evidence that the Israeli 175-mm. artillery guns have been put to frequent use. According to people who fled the area, there were few civilian deaths. Refugees said they were not bombed as they fled north on the road...
...thought to lie in the great deposits of goo known as tar sands, much of which are in Canada. At present world prices, they are on the verge of becoming economical to develop. Two plants are already extracting oil from tar sands in Alberta's Athabasca fields, and Shell Canada plans to spend $4 billion for a third plant, which will start producing in the early 1980s...
...Dillard watches a candle flame consume a golden female moth. The moth's abdomen catches in the wet wax and her wings "ignited like tissue paper, enlarging the circle of light in the clearing." Her antennae crackle, her legs disappear and her body is reduced to a glowing shell. "And then," relates Dillard, "this moth-essence, this spectacular skeleton, began to act as a wick ... She burned for two hours, until I blew...
...best interests of the union. "This is how they would do away with all seniority," he says: once the task force were excluded from the bargaining unit, Harvard could eventually transfer more and more of the officers into it, leaving the Police Association a memberless shell. The question, Letteri says, will probably have to be decided through mediation. He will not, however, rule out the possibility of filing an unfair labor practice charge against the University, for allegedly failing to comply with the seniority provisions of previous contracts. At the same time, Powers implies Letteri and the union might also...