Word: shell
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...that June day five years ago, peace had seemed simply a problem of lashing shell fire, the stutter of machine guns, a man named Hitler and a man named Tojo. This June, children played on the half-buried landing craft. But peace seemed more elusive and infinitely more baffling, a matter of hard-held purpose in the face of provocation, hard-built strength in the face of shadowy threat...
...Secretariat alone would cost some $21 million to construct. For its money, U.N. would doubtless get an efficient workshop. Would the glass & marble shell also look monumental enough for the purpose? Argued the FORUM: "In Washington, a hundred years ago, monumentality was columns. On the East River, now, it is construed as serenely simple geometry, akin to the pyramids...
...worried: the tour, and the Philadelphia's nearly $16,000-a-week payroll (duly noted by the London press) was guaranteed. Hardly worried. either was the guarantor-handsome, 31-year-old British Impresario Harold Fielding, who stood to make up in publicity and prestige what he would shell out of his pocket. Moreover, on a turnabout's-fair-play basis, U.S. Music Czar James Caesar Petrillo would welcome British orchestras to tour...
While the varsity, J.V. and freshman crews annexed the eastern rowing crown this spring. Eliot House's Intramural shell won the House championship, and the next week beat its Yale counterparts...
...morning, after the fighting had eddied around the house for several hours, a shell hit the compound and wounded six Nationalist soldiers who had moved into the garden house...