Word: shell
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...guns like this and the Long Tom are classed as heavy artillery. They are good for destroying enemy batteries, pillboxes and other fortifications. If a shell from either weapon should hit a tank, the tank is done...
...quarters sent all hands to their battle stations. The Juneau was 4,000 yards offshore and the lights of trucks moving along coastal roads in enemy-held South Korea could be seen with the naked eye. One of the Juneau's forward guns cracked sharply and a flare-shell sped into the night. A few seconds later a brilliant white light floated gracefully over the beach toward low hills. The five-inchers pounded for a few minutes and then all was dark and silent again. The Juneau swung about and cruised south for a few minutes, then north, then...
Composed of a single plastic and Fiberglas shell mounted on legs, the new chair is more roomy, stable and luxurious, but just as simple as its predecessor. Pictures of the chair were being reproduced in dozens of newspapers and magazines, and an enthusiastic House Beautiful editor rhapsodically described it as "the sitting sensation of modern design...
...linotype. To produce this plate a thin plastic mold is made from the flat page forms, which hold the proofread lines of type ejected by the linotype. The mold is then sprayed with a silver solution, given an electrolysis bath, copper-plated and nickel-plated. That leaves a thin shell of printing surface, which must be backed up and strengthened for the printing press. Hot, molten metal is poured into the shell, which is then rolled into a curved plate and cooled. The rough edges are beveled and it is ready for the printing press...
...West Coast the home-grown male often seems to run to an angular, muscular 6 ft. 3 in. 175-pounder who likes to lose himself in the anonymity of a number in an eight-oared shell. Each February hordes of them report to Washington Coach Al Ulbrickson and California's Ky Ebright; each June one or the other of the Western crews manages to give the East a rowing lesson. Only twice in the past 18 years has the West failed to win the big Intercollegiate Rowing Association regatta at Poughkeepsie...