Word: shellful
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...offshore sites, like the Destin Anticline off the Gulf Coast of Florida, have proved every bit as disappointing as wells drilled in the continental U.S. In 1973 the Destin fields looked so lucrative that oil companies bid a record $1.49 billion for leases. After drilling 14 dry holes, Exxon, Shell and three other producers pulled out their rigs, and oilmen now refer to that ill-fated venture as "the Destin Anticlimax." They remain confident that other offshore sites-mainly along the Eastern seaboard and the California coastline-will produce better results, perhaps yielding as much as 2 billion bbl. during...
...Dukakis may just get what's coming to him this time. Because the voters are not as dumb as they look. They are beginning to sec how that shell game works, and they know that Dukakis, rather than ending the game, is turning out to be just another inept player...
Those Americans who do still make it to Europe are largely the affluent. Indeed, the European travel industry finds some comfort in the fact that Americans are still the biggest spenders around; in France they shell out an average $63 a day, v. $26 for the Germans.* But almost everywhere Yankee tourists have been learning home truths abroad: they have been buying less, staying at cheaper hotels, taking subways and buses. Many have discovered the less traveled provinces of France, such as Burgundy and Périgord, where $5 still buys a good dinner with wine. Others have stretched shrunken...
...against trying to expel Israel from the General Assembly this fall. Said he: "We fear for the integrity and survival of the General Assembly itself, and no less for that of the specialized agencies. Those who seek to manipulate U.S. membership by procedural abuse may well inherit an empty shell." Kissinger pointedly declared that "the American people are understandably tired of the inflammatory rhetoric against...
...Francisco's new school chief, Robert Alioto (no kin to Mayor Joseph Alioto), admits that he was not sorry to leave his old superintendent's job in Yonkers, N.Y., because there the president of the local teachers' union "has a strong dislike for me." Some shell-shocked superintendents maintain that true peace is possible only through retirement. After wrestling thanklessly with budget problems for two years, Alflorence Cheatham resigned as the Cambridge, Mass., superintendent last spring, citing poor health. Says he: "There is only so much you can take. I got worn out and quit...