Word: shelling
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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They are among 13 girls, all members of the Harvard-Radcliffe Program in Business Administration, who returned last week to a charred shell instead of a cooperative apartment. The privately-owned building was empty at the time...
...what appeared to be a violent protest against existing weather conditions, the elves and gnomes which frequent all gases, particularly neon, have incapacitated the "S" in SHELL (right), giving the motorists on Memorial Drive at Magazine Beach a vivid reminder that the day of judgment is not far off. Repairmen have been alerted and are expected to appear on the scene tomorrow to disenchant the "S". If the weather or the magic spell is too potent, the sign may remain in its unholy predicament, and, as the station's proprietor observed, "The (S) hell Oil people will be mighty...
...Minnesota's Hubert Humphrey, are dead set against it (they want federal controls to hold prices down). Republicans are also divided on the issue, but not as sharply as the Demo crats. Lyndon Johnson believes that in an election year it is best to get such a bomb shell out of the way early...
...Gonaxis, less than an inch long, attacks by attaching itself to the foot of the garden snail and devouring it alive with minute, filelike teeth as it retreats into its shell. Although the Gonaxis occasionally turns on one of its own kind (chiefly baby snails), it generally attacks only a snail of a different species. In its native Africa, the Gonaxis has maintained a healthy balance in the snail population...
...teacher, you're a respectable member of society, but if your inner life were so thoroughly respectable, you couldn't write at all. You have to regain a certain amount of naivete to write a novel, and at the same time, you have to break out of your academic shell." He adds that "a writer is a combination of audacity and innocence...