Word: shell
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...there were in fact guilty men who must answer for the larger mystery the Mullens faced. Implicit in Friendly Fire is the understanding that Vietnam was more than a tragic mistake, an error in the limited sense that the shell which exploded in the trees above Hill 76 and killed Michael Mullen was an error. It defies logic to believe that the long years of blood and napalm were merely a tragic series of mistakes dizzily succeeding each other. Men, powerful, arrogant and lying men, plucked Michael Mullen out of graduate school and put him on Hill 76. The piece...
Harvard's undefeated track team, paced by Olympic trials qualifier John McCulloh, left the baldies from West Point a little shell-shocked Saturday after a 99-55 blitzkrieg at Soldiers Field Stadium...
Dubbed LAGEOS, for laser geody-namic satellite, the new satellite consists of an aluminum shell dimpled with 426 so-called cube-corner prism reflectors. Each of the prisms reflects directly to the source a laser beam striking it from any angle. Inside the sphere is a solid brass core, which contributes most of the 903-Ib. satellite's weight. Because it is so small yet has so much mass, LAGEOS will not be much affected by any traces of the earth's atmosphere, particles in the solar wind, or variations in the earth's gravity field...
...lightweight varsity, meanwhile, will face the same strong B.U. crew which overpowered it by four lengths three weeks ago on the Charles. However, neither Sandy Constantine nor Jane Clark was in the shell on that date...
...Half-Shell...