Word: shell
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...been retaken by his troops. Actually, through the ten bloody days it lasted, the Rightist counteroffensive never touched Teruel itself, got no closer than four miles from the city. Evidence from other sources indicates that the three U. S. and British correspondents with Franco's army killed by shell fire at Caudete on New Year's Eve (TIME, Jan. 10) were not three miles behind the line, as they believed, but little more than a thousand yards from the fighting...
...known chiefly as the home of Spain's Romeo & Juliet, the lovers Juan de Marcilla and Isabel de Segura who died of grief in the 13th Century, whose remains were put on view in the Church of San Pedro; there they remained last week still undamaged by shell fire. Most famed drama on their tragedy is Los Amantes de Teruel, by the Spanish son of a German cabinetmaker, Juan Eugenio Hartzenbusch...
...reached the car and passed the chocolate to the man in the driver's seat a 75 mm. shrapnel shell burst right beside him with a deafening roar. A steel splinter drove through 'his back, killing him instantly. The man beside him crumpled up mortally wounded. Of the two men in the rear seat one writhed with a shattered leg, the other was barely hurt. Before the occupants of the other cars could reach their friends, a second shell, which did little damage, threw them flat on their faces...
...observation at Hines Hospital, run by the U. S. Veterans Administration in Proviso Township, near Chicago. Charles Hester had complained of a ticking in his head, and doctors could actually hear the ticking by cupping their ears a few inches away. It had bothered him intermittently ever since a shell exploded near him in the War. Colonel Hugh Scott, chief of the hospital staff, diagnosed as follows: "The tick-tock is caused when he moves a certain muscle in his palate. The movement of the palatal muscle carries the sound through the Eustachian tube to the middle...
Last month President Cardenas neatly split the opposition by a deal with Mexican Eagle Oil Co. (an affiliate of British Royal Dutch-Shell, which controls 60% of Mexican oil production), yielding it full control of the rich Poza Rica field in return for royalties of 15% to 35% of the petroleum produced (TIME...