Word: shellful
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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More Cutting. Now, however, as frightened consumers retreat further into their shell and unsold goods pile up, the capital spending boom is fading. Discounted for inflation, it has been dropping for the past six months and is sure to fall even more in 1975 (see chart). The result: an even greater likelihood that the recovery, when it comes, will be low and slow...
...public just knows him through speeches, campaigning ... but people don't really know him the way he is. I always say he's a kid at heart, you know. He is a young man in an old body, that's all ... He came out of his shell and it's the first time...
...that the iron-mining operations of U.S. Steel and Bethlehem Steel will be nationalized by 1975 rather than in 2000 as originally agreed. It is presumed that the American companies will be fairly compensated with money from oil revenues. Oil leases and equipment held by foreign investors-principally Exxon, Shell and Gulf-will also be nationalized on a stepped-up schedule, probably within the next few months...
...from the Arab armies and have received 450 more from the U.S. The net gain: 330. Another 600 are on order from the U.S. The U.S. M60, mainstay of the Israeli tank force, proved itself to be superior to even the Soviet T-62 in accuracy, gun range and shell penetration. Equipped with computer range finders, the M-60 allowed the Israelis to make a high percentage of first-shot kills; the T-62 usually had to be shot at least once to test its range. The Israelis have, together with the new tanks, 100 ultrasophisticated TOW antitank missile launchers...
...cities of the North. As intimately as anybody has, he tells why they left. But All God's Dangers is most valuable for its picture of pure courage. Knowing he was ridiculed and despised, aware that whites would frustrate his plans, Shaw simply went ahead, surrounded by a shell of pride. He wonders where this grit came from, recognizes that his nature welled up from something deeper than race or family. He describes his own "dear brother" as "hush-mouthed. He made up his mind that he weren't goin' to have anything, and after that...