Word: shell
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...July 30 the commander of Toledo's new Red workers militia, one Comrade Daniel Ovalle, admitted that the Whites still held the Alcázar, asked whether he should shell it. On Aug. 4 tentatively and one by one at intervals Reds popped 60 4-in. shells at the Alcázar without result, telephoned into the fortress to tell Commandant Moscardó: "We warn you heavier shells will come." On Aug. 11 cadets shot a cavalry mount for meat and mobsters standing at a safe distance shrieked at the military academy: "You fools...
...study of Sassoon's effort to free his mind of doubt and concentrate on the task of making himself a good officer for his men. Written with a matter-of-fact detachment, it occasionally rises to rhetorical heights, as when Sassoon describes the mental hospital, where the shell-shocked patients were cheerful and normal curing the days. But at night "they lost control and the hospital became sepulchral and oppressive with saturations of War experience. . . . One became conscious that the place was full of men whose slumbers were morbid and terrifying- men muttering uneasily or suddenly crying...
...started for the French frontier farm from which I had planned to describe the battle of Irun to Columbia's listeners -with sound effects by the combatants. The effects began soon after my microphone was installed between a haystack and a cornfield and with them came incessant shot & shell. The rapidly shifting fighting front had placed my haystack in direct line of rebel fire. Bullets sang overhead, pished into the haystack, and swished through the corn. It was impossible to move. Then I thought of TIME. For six hours, with an occasional break to survey fighting, fix my glasses...
...Landon slump during August, the Republican gospel of salvation being preached by Alf Landon on one hand and that being preached by John Hamilton and Frank Knox on the other seemed about as dissonant and confusing to voters as the competing Christianities of a Boston Unitarian and a hard-shell Southern Baptist would be to Hottentot bushmen...
Motherly Queen Wilhelmina came out on her front steps. Ample Crown Princess Juliana climbed from the car. The two splendid women effusively embraced. And out from behind the wheel slipped a slender young man with large tortoise-shell spectacles to be kissed in his turn and greeted as "Dear Benno!" Huskily the crowd continued to cheer "Hold the Sea! Hold...