Word: shell
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Nori, South Koreans of the ist R.O.K. Division moved up to occupy Little Nori. For five weeks-up to last week-the two hostile forces lived in what passes for peace on the front lines, occasionally taking a potshot or lobbing over a mortar shell and getting a round or two in return. Both the Reds and the ROKs spent much time and energy improving their caves, tunnels, trenches, bunkers...
They say in total truth: "We aren't going anywhere," and ask why, then, they must patrol and probe and await the sniper's bullet or the shell that may find them on their hills, and why they must be there at all. They do not yearn to leap from their lines and drive across the snow-whitened enemy hills. Far from it. But they do yearn for an end of this war and they would rather fight to end it than await an ending that never comes...
...Lloyd George, Tory son of Britain's World War I Liberal Prime Minister, brightened their hopes by announcing that by early spring egg-rationing would come to an end. "The fact of the matter is," he told the House of Commons, "that at the moment the number of shell eggs* available in this country is actually greater than the number before the war." Yet, Lloyd George admitted, of 8 billion eggs produced in the country during the past year, only a little more than half had found their way to the shops. A great part of the rest...
...strategic ridges north of Kumhwa went into its seventh week. U.S. corps officers and liaison men who had seen it were sick and sad at heart. Said an A.P. dispatch: "Some [U.S. officers] have wept as pitiful remnants of full companies dragged their way back down the shell-blasted slopes of Triangle Hill and Sniper Ridge. Combat rifle companies are sprinkled heavily now with green replacements...
...leases on 1,500,000,acres in all) in the basin, it now has plenty of company. Most of the major U.S. oil companies, plus most of the top independent wildcatters, have rigs towering all over the basin, from 100 miles east of Bismarck to eastern Montana, where Shell Oil and Texaco discovered two rich fields near Richey and Glendive. In this big oil play, there are more than 80 drilling rigs and 120 exploration crews probing the Williston Basin...