Word: shell
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...interceptor had pulled within range. She flew the flag of the Chinese Nationalist navy, and her machine-gunners opened fire. Nigelock's crew leaped for cover, but before the gunboat could close, a 4.5-in. shell whistled across her bow. H.M.S. Cockade had come racing to the rescue. The Nationalist gunboat, "suitably rebuked," as Cockade's offhand report put it, turned tail...
...last week, a Communist observer idly scuffed at a mortar shell lying in the demilitarized zone. Alarmed, a U.N. observer turned to an interpreter and made the following statement, which was duly taken down, delivered, and made a part of the official record: "Our side believes that this object, which personnel of your side have been kicking, is an unexploded live round. In order to protect both sides, our side requests that personnel of your side stop this action...
...three male leads in the film turn in the finest performances of their careers. Montgomery Clift displays a marvelous, snail-like capacity to contract his feeling and intelligence into the close little shell of Prew's personality, and yet he also manages to convey that within this very limited man blazes a large spirit...
...support. The U.N.'s booming Long Tom 155s, 105-mm. howitzers and multiple heavy machine guns filled the valleys with their clamor. Gun barrels got so hot that they sizzled in the rain. Supply truck crews struggling through red-brown mud quickly dumped their shell loads at new gun positions and headed back for more...
Americans like to believe that the U.S. public high school is free. Not so, says Principal Willard Hawkins of Maryland's Bel Air Junior-Senior High School, in a report in the current Nation's Schools. Aside from taxes, the average parent must shell out money all through the year...