Word: shell
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...remote outpost that was under Viet Cong attack. With a chaplain's kit on his left hip and a medical corpsman's bag on his right, Lecky ministered to a dying helicopter pilot, then turned to helping others-even though he was wounded by a mortar shell...
...over, Smedley shell-shocked a bruised and exhausted Wilkinson with hard serves and blazing strokes to win the last two games...
...outstanding Crimson sophomore, Rick Sterne, will probably face Tom Gilbert in the third match. Gilbert, a senior who has improved rapidly in the past year, shell-shocked Harvard's Craig Stapleton last year for a quick 3-0 victory. Nevertheless, former collegiate freshman champ Sterne looms as Harvard's most likely winner...
...bristling with automatic weapons, and are often preceded by diesel-powered machine-gun-bearing armored cars called con rua, or "turtles," by the Vietnamese. But armored cars are easily blown up, and even turtles can be turned back by heavy machine-gun fire or a 57-mm. recoilless-rifle shell...
...shell-or crustacean cloister...