Word: shellful
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...Egypt today cannot indulge in large-scale offensive operations. She cannot even shell our lines for long because she knows that she will get it from the air. Once these missiles are installed, Egypt will feel freer to do whatever she wants. So one should not fall for the illusion that the SA-3s are defensive. They are being installed to give Egypt an offensive capability. The most severe aspect of the problem is the Sovietization of Egypt. Soviet troops will be operating in Egypt not only as advisers and technicians but as ordinary troops operating weapon systems. This...
...hardly the country's most pressing social need-and a spurt in highway construction would divert resources from the genuine need of private housing.Said one Administration staff economist: "I can't understand all the excitement about the construction bit. It's all really sort of a shell game...
Washburn said the barrage occurred in two phases. As the boat passed under the bridge. "two little girls. shrieking obscenities at the top of their lungs. pushed off a board, duly waterlogged. This sort of caromed off the stern pair who prevented it from destroying the shell...
Such monastic concentration suggests that Doubell, a systems analyst for Shell of Australia, is Ralph the Robot. Far from it. Decked out in an antelope suede jacket, black hip-hugging bell-bottoms and tan suede shoes, he is more Ralph the Rapscallion, enjoying "the usual recreations of a young man." As speedy behind the wheel as he is on the track, he was hauled in last year for gunning his Chevelle Malibu down the San Diego freeway at 100 m.p.h. Two weeks ago, after setting a meet record in the half mile at Manhattan's Millrose Games, he jetted...
...companies using its pipeline, apparently believing that this would subject them to intensified Arab threats. The only major non-Arab producer in the area so far is Iran, and some of its oil might trickle into the Israeli pipeline. But major drillers of Iranian oil -British Petroleum, Shell, Gulf, Jersey Standard-also operate in Arab countries and are not likely to risk their concessions by openly doing business with Israel. The Israelis, however, are obviously getting oil from somewhere...