Word: shellful
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...still drink pitchers for $1.45 on Wednesday, which is 45 cents more than you have to shell out between 8 p.m. and 1 a.m. on Thursday...
...that familiar character of modern fiction, the wanderer who can in habit diverse places and situations as naturally as a hermit crab crawls into an abandoned shell. Unlike Edward, she accepts age and solitude without feeling boredom. Unlike Stephen, she can draw pleasure from watching dust motes dance in a shaft of light...
...time, each devotee performed an elaborate bathing ceremony that took up to a month, but with millions now in attendance such rituals are impossible. Most ordinary worshipers simply float a coconut shell with offerings to the local deity, take the "holy dip," and fill small metal vials with Ganges water to take away...
Inflation accounting has been used successfully in Brazil, where inflation rates have been hovering around 40%. Holland's huge Philips Co. has been using replacement-cost accounting for more than 15 years. Shell Oil Co. offered its 1974 results in both "historical dollars" and "current dollars" adjusted for purchasing power, an approach similar to one advocated by the American accounting profession's own Financial Accounting Standards Board...
...among other things has pro football's longest winning streak: twelve straight. In Kenny Stabler, the Raiders have a quarterback of stunning accuracy (a 66.7% pass-completion record), seven years of experience and sound football sense. Stabler stands behind an almost impregnable wall of protection led by Tackle Art Shell and Guard Gene Upshaw, his left arm ever cocked, "the Snake" ready to strike. Few quarterbacks have had a covey of receivers to rival Stabler's. Wide Receiver Fred Biletnikoff, 33, works the sideline like a 190-lb. Wallenda. His hands are liberally coated with Hold-Tite...