Word: shellful
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...over murals that showed Booker T. Washington and George Washington Carver. And whites continue to treat blacks with condescension. Greenville School Superintendent Thompson says desegregation will work only if the blacks "keep their mouths shut and don't get pushy." Otherwise, says Thompson, he will "inherit an empty shell...
...this optimism is the upheaval in geological thinking that took place during the 1960s. No longer is the earth's crust thought of as a rigid shell, but rather as a dozen gigantic, mobile "plates." These plates are thought to be driven slowly across the terrestrial surface by enormous currents within the earth. When two plates collide, one slides under the other, causing deep and devastating earthquakes like the one that rocked Peru in June. Shallower quakes occur when two plates slide past each other, as do the two sides of the San Andreas Fault system in California...
...nude in the Suez. Last week the more restrained Israelis also ventured into the canal's waters, but they were instructed to keep on their flak jackets. The ceasefire also allowed newsmen to view the devastation wrought on the Egyptian side of the canal by Israeli bombing and shelling. Reported TIME Correspondent Lee Griggs: "In Ismailia, the towering twelve-story Suez Canal Authority headquarters looks like a giant piece of Swiss cheese, shredded with shell holes. The railway yards were a mass of twisted wreckage. Tall palm trees had been blackened by napalm or broken off by shellfire...
...took most of the lead out, to help clean up the air," boasts an ad for Esso Big Plus gasoline. Another ad reads: "A new gasoline-non-leaded Shell of the Future. Part of Shell's drive for cleaner air." A third is headlined: "How do you pick the right gasoline to help fight pollution? Choose lead-free Amoco Super-Premium...
...least nine huge U.S. corporations are foreign-controlled. The Netherlands-British Royal Dutch/Shell Group controls 69% of Shell Oil; Belgium's Petrofina owns two-thirds of American Petrofina; AKU of The Netherlands controls American Enka; The Netherlands-British Unilever owns both Lever Brothers and Thomas J. Lipton; Distillers Corp.-Seagrams of Canada has Joseph E. Seagram; Italy's Olivetti company is outright owner of Olivetti Underwood; the Swiss Nestle Co. holds one-third of Libby, McNeill & Libby, and Canada's George Weston Limited has 57% of National...