Word: shell
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Most of the free world guessed that the Kremlin was playing the old Red shell game-now-you-see-peace, now-you-don't -sometimes called tactics of confusion...
Back, by Henry Green. A slim but engaging story of an English war veteran who learns that shell shock, a metal leg and the death of his old flame don't mean the end of life after all (TIME...
Amid this shattering burst of shot & shell the question disintegrated. But as the feathers gently drifted down, so did the glamor of Harry Truman's trip to Wake Island...
...Haas, 41, a veteran of 19 years with the Public Health Service, is a nationwide system of germ-warfare detection centers. They would operate in much the same way as a radar network for detecting the approach of aircraft. But instead of a sky-scanning "bedspring" or "clam shell," there would be, in each likely target area, a device to force large samples of air through filters on which disease-causing organisms would be trapped. Each day's catch could be analyzed to see whether any unusual microbes had appeared. So would samples of the area's milk...
...cavalcade pulled up at the Capitol, a fire-blackened, bullet-pocked shell of masonry, its rooms and offices still strewn with the enemy's litter-Russian-made helmets and burp guns, half-consumed bottles of beer and wine. There MacArthur met his friend and ally, South Korea's President Syngman Rhee, who had winged up from Pusan in the general's old plane Bataan...