Word: shell
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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They spoke of the dead with a quiet casualness that seemed callous. "Too bad about the sergeant," two boys said to me as they watched stretcher bearers carry the blanketed form of their platoon sergeant downhill towards an ambulance. The sergeant had been killed by a mortar shell a few minutes before. "Hey, Al, your buddy got it," shouted a jeep driver at a G.I. eating by the roadside, "down on the hill this afternoon." The G.I. looked at the driver and nodded; then he went back to eating. Many men had died; it was not an unusual thing...
Seated in a wheelchair, with his right ankle in a cast, Vieira told his story: he was a weapons instructor in the U.S. military mission in Korea, had stayed on to fight the Communists. How had he been wounded? Explained the corporal quietly: "An artillery shell came over and the concussion knocked me to the ground. I started to get up and found my ankle was fractured...
Berliners are proud of Frederick's bronze statue on Unter den Linden, which, since the start of World War II, had been encased in a brick shell to protect it against air raids. Recently, not fully realizing their kinship to the king, the Communists suggested that the statue be melted down for scrap. An outcry of protest from Berliners taught the Communist bosses that they could put Frederick to better...
Last week the statue was taken from its shell and gently laid out in a truck to be transported to a grander location in Frederick's graceful palace of Sans Souci at Potsdam. Barely had the trip got under way when the truck broke down; the Reds announced that Frederick would be temporarily restored to his old pedestal, but that glory at Sans Souci still awaited...
...this year. ¶ A whopping 176 million Ibs. of butter and 69 million Ibs. of cheese, ¶ More than 340 million Ibs. of dried milk, a huge potential food supply for troops or distressed allies. ¶ About 103 million Ibs. of dried eggs, approximately the equivalent of two dozen shell eggs for each U.S. citizen. (During the first three weeks of July another 75 million Ibs. were added. During July, too, the Agriculture Department stored away more than 10 million Ibs. of frozen turkey...