Word: shell
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Greenglass, the plutonium in the bomb was surrounded by 36 "lenses" of some such high explosive as TNT. Such lenses are roughly analogous to the shaped charges in bazooka projectiles; when they explode, they focus much of their force in one direction. If they are arranged in a spherical shell around the plutonium, their explosion will force it toward a common center...
Saturday's rowing classic, the Oxford Cambridge race, was literally washed out and postponed until today when the Oxford shell sank during the first three minutes...
...former Yale coxswain, George Alexander Carver who found himself forced to cry "this is ridiculous" after five strokes. Then the shell slid under. Carver had twice unsuccessfully piloted the Elis against a Harvard crew but never before did he lose under such ignominious circumstances. The opposing Cambridge shell also almost bubbled under into the choppy Thames...
Whichever crew wins the Cambridge-Oxford race will arrive in New York April 7 on the Queen Mary and will driven to Cambridge where it will be trisected and lodged in Lowell, Eliot, and Kirkland. Both crews will train at Newell, though the Englishmen will shut their own shell, an old rowing custom...
...social quality comes partly from the clubs, partly from the vigorous parties which spread over the courtyard and through the entryways every football afternoon. The athletic appears in the traditionally strong House football team and crew, and the regular Eliot hegemony on the varsity shell...