Word: shell
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Williams in The Duchess of Idaho. Less ornate cinemas run serial thrillers (the kind shown for U.S. kids on Saturday mornings), with all twelve episodes run together in four-hour sittings. This week's favorite; Bomba, the Jungle Boy. The dance halls, puppet shows, Balinese dancing-girl acts, shell games and other enticements of the "Great...
Tuesday night, three Red Chinese divisions attacked. Mortar, machine-gun and shell fire poured in from Communist entrenchments surrounding the town. Next day, the attack abated; cargo planes dropped food and ammunition into the 23rd's position, while U.N. fighters clawed Red positions with rockets and machine guns. At dusk the Chinese came in again. The 23rd's ammunition ran low. G.I.s combed the glove compartments of jeeps for spare cartridges. When the Chinese assaulted a French-held hill, the Frenchmen threw them back with a bayonet charge...
...first went to Naval Lieut. Charles Lucas in 1856 for pitching overboard a live shell during the Crimean War. Cast from the bronze of captured cannon, the V.C. entitles enlisted recipients who survive to a lifetime stipend of ?10 annually, a salute from officers...
Australia's rabbit eats a quarter of the country's pasturage. Cattlemen have tried poison, fences, shot & shell-all without success. Last week a new weapon promised to cut the rabbit down to size...
...meteorite "moon" was moving on its orbit about 800 ft. away from the line of flight of the meteorite earth, and considerably behind it. Each collected on its forward side a layer of highly compressed air equivalent in mass to many feet of rock. The air shell of the big meteorite hit the earth first, acting like high explosive and blasting a preliminary crater...