Word: shellful
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...festival is music filling the air or competing with fireworks. Manhattan's Central Park was packed with almost a quarter of a million people last week as the New York Philharmonic exploded into John Philip Sousa and giant skyrockets burst above the band shell. A festival is Chicago Secretary Janice Simpson puzzling over whether she should go hear Lonnie Listen Smith at the Miller beer Jazz Stage or Muddy Waters at the Olympia beer Blues Stage, playing at almost the same time at ChicagoFest, where more than 500,000 trooped to the city's old brick and metal...
...time it would take to load or unload a missile. To prevent Soviet spy satellites from detecting what was going on, the TEL's actions would be completely shrouded by the "shield vehicle," another truck that straddles the TEL much as a turtle is covered by its shell...
...Shell-shocked, Lansing Lamont slogged through the battlefields of the nation's most prestigious universities, fending off grade frenzy, resisting sexual anarchy, getting the material for the folks back home. Why top-ranked schools? "Hell, I didn't want to go out somewhere to some Animal House, where there are no serious academics really, but to those places that provide material for the leadership posts," Lamont explained in a recent interview...
Whoever wrote the title "Baltimore's Soft-Shelled Crab" knows more about baseball than about crabs. The softshelled crab, having just shed his protective shell, is the most vulnerable and timid crustacean, and usually hides in the sea grasses and shallows. Not a very apt comparison to fiery and aggressive Earl Weaver...
...fact, not a judgment. At first, you remember, Alice Thumb, it was our anxiety, our unease which was explained away, but in the process, we ourselves have been disappearing. The efficiency of our explanations is like that of the insecticide which reduces the insect to a crumbling shell...