Word: shelling
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Thin shadow's slanted across the late afternoon, streaking the slate-grey waters of the Severn. On the Annapolis shore, spectators took a long second look at the river. Was the haze-dimmed sun playing tricks, or was that an extra shell rowing out to the starting line for the annual Navy-Princeton varsity crew race? To sharp eyes, five interlocked circles, the Olympic insigne. stenciled on the shell's bow. explained the interloper's presence. The "Admirals." Navy's 1952 champions, were back in competition, tuning up to try for a second Olympic title...
...Shell-less eggs,machine-sealed in tough, transparent polyethylene (produced by Sani-Shell Container Corp.). The eggs can be opened by pull tabs like those on cigarette packs, or they can be boiled right in their polyethylene shells. Scientists at Cornell University, who developed the idea, expect it to save farmers millions of dollars by making cracked eggs as salable as whole ones, and by eliminating breakage in shipment...
...long since sent their consciences on permanent leave. Steiner tangles with one of them, his Führer-minded C.O., and exposes him for the cowardly lump of jelly he is. In the meantime even the old soldiers die. Dorn and Kern are blasted to shapeless pulp by artillery shells. Schnurrbart is mistakenly murdered by a homosexual German officer settling a private score. It is a quiet day on the eastern front when a stray Russian shell catches Steiner. "Why are you bawling?" he asks the only old platoon member left to mourn him. "You're the last noncom...
Willi Heinrich, 35, has written this first novel with the passionate intensity of a man plucking shell fragments out of his own memory. A corporal himself...
While most companies do all they can to help with recreational and cultural projects, management takes pains to avoid dominating local governments or creating a feeling of passive dependence on company paternalism. When Shell built a new $75 million refinery in little Anacortes, Wash, last year, employees were advised to ''be helpful but go slow" in civic activities. A company executive explained. "We were very careful not to lead residents to believe we were going to be the great white father." Said Editor Wallie Funk of the Anacortes American Bulletin: "Only a few of us suffered any Shell...