Word: shell
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...side of the sausage which is Mediterranean Coast, the Spanish made a landing and bit out a little piece of enemy territory near Ajdir. The troops were embarked at Melilla to the east and cruised along the Riff coast for two days with convoying battleships, both French and Spanish, shelling enemy works. After two feints, one morning the battleship Paris steamed into Alhucemas Bay and began to shell the Riff positions at the main beach. For four hours the bombardment with 12½-in. guns continued. The Riffs replied with their handful of 6-in. batteries, which of course...
...Paris, bombarding the coast of Sidi Driss, sent a salvo nine miles inland to Annoual. French aviators reported that one shell exploded in an Arab coffeehouse, sending Arabs and coffee high...
...lines beneath the thorax and shoulders as though dropped from decayed strings, lay quarts and quarts of finest pierced pearls, from pinhead size to hickory-nut. There were necklaces of grizzly bears' teeth, the largest ever found, strung with buttons of copper and silver. There were tortoise shell fragments and a swan cut in tortoise shell and effigy pipes-one, in the image of a standing wolf, beautifully cut; another, a foot in length and highly polished, showing a bear. There were cloths, folded beneath the grisly one's vacant pate and beneath the heads of three companions...
Clouds. Another vague and vagrant production somehow found lodgement on the slippery stairs of metropolitan endeavor. The lodgement will be temporary. The story tells of a shell shocked male and a sweetly suffering mother. The story goes that the leading actress wrote the play under a nom-de-plume. Which explains...
Unknown to anyone a shell with a misprimed fuse was inserted into one of the guns. As the unfortunate gunner pulled his lanyard not only the propelling charge but the high explosive shell charge detonated. The gun burst, killing seven men and wounding eleven others, all skilled in the handling of shells and explosives...