Word: shellful
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Much of the battle for Quang Tri city is the boredom of fearful waiting: waiting for a 130-mm. shell to come crashing in, waiting for an airstrike to soften up a bunker position, waiting for new troops to arrive with more ammunition and supplies, waiting for headquarters to decide whether to attack or, well, to wait...
...years, Centre Point has gradually grown from a simple oddity to a roiling controversy. Last month the Tory government's Environment minister, Peter Walker, threatened in Parliament to introduce legislation forcing Hyams to find tenants or face a government takeover of his building. Hyams, who operates in a shell of almost total privacy, answered in a rare public letter accusing Walker of repeating "baseless assertions." His reply merely recharged the controversy, since it offered a glimpse into the secretive empire of Harry Hyams, 44, one of Britain's most mysterious millionaires...
Boston Pops Esplanade Concert. HATCH SHELL (by the Charles River) Tues., Fri. Sat. even...
Like many other oil firms, Royal Dutch/Shell faces dwindling profit margins, stiffening antipollution laws and inflating demands from producing countries for more money. Partly because of an economic slowdown in Europe and a leveling in earnings of its U.S. subsidiary, Shell Oil, the Royal Dutch group saw profits fall 35% in this year's first quarter, to $ 192 million. Predicts Wagner: "On the whole, 1972 is not going to be a very attractive year...
...eight-oared shell itself is colored 67 per cent Crimson. Brothers Mike '71 and Cleve '69 Livingston will row at bow and 2, Frits '69 and Bill '71 Hobbs are at 5 and 6, Terry, a 175-pound metronome will stroke, and Paul Hoffman '69, who enraged stolid U.S. Olympic officials with his support of the black athlete protest in 1968, will be coxswain. Two other Harvard oarsmen, lightweight stroke Tony Brooks and heavyweight captain Dave Sawyier, will go to Munich either as members of the four-with-cox or as spares...