Word: shell
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Shanghai will be the Communists' graveyard," read posters slapped on store fronts throughout the city last week. "Sacrifice everything to defend Shanghai," exhorted others. But outside the besieged city the Nationalist defense perimeter shrank slowly. From the east, Communist armies moved to within shell range of the city without meeting any real opposition. One night, for the first time in China's civil war, a Communist shell whined into Shanghai's heart...
...open-air markets. Shanghai's fishing fleet lay idle at the docks. The price of yellow fish, one of the city's staple foods, jumped six times in one day; then the fish all but vanished from the market. By night the incandescent white light of star shells blossomed periodically in the skies around Shanghai. Tracer shells splashed lines of red along the horizon. One shell hit a Standard Vacuum Oil Co. tank near the Whangpoo and 2,000 tons of gasoline went up with a whoosh, burned for 24 hours...
...feet-four and his hands hang down around his knees, he can't be a good oarsman." At Cambridge Bridge, the coach went wild yelling at a flock of dinghies to clear the course. In a practice spin at 2,000 meters, the varsity shell barely nosed out the freshmen. The time was slow and Coach Bolles shook his head gloomily...
...mostly from the Geographic's tax-free earnings (it is classed as an educational institution). Besides the magazine, the society also publishes books, bulletins and maps, maintains a 20,000-volume library, sponsors geographic lectures and underwrites scientific expeditions. Grateful explorers have named after Grosvenor a Greenland sea shell, an Antarctic mountain range, an Alaskan lake, a Chinese plant and a Peruvian fish...
Four spares for the third varsity heavy boat found a four oared shell at the Union Boat Club, three weeks ago. Under the aegis of Dave Stone, number three man and unofficial captain, they will enter in the name of the Union Boat Club. Bolles has given them a few sessions of polishing this week. Now their only difficulty is in finding some competition, for no other four has turned up in the regatta entry blanks...