Word: shelled
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...iron spikes-or needle-sharp bamboo stakes smeared with excrement that will poison his blood. Stepping on an invisible thread can trigger a cross-bow's arrow into his chest, and stepping on a half-buried nail can pierce the detonating cap of the shotgun shell beneath his foot. The door of a village hut may be rigged to a battery of exploding spikes, the clothes hanging on a peasant's wall may be wired to a grenade, and the Buddha on the family altar is liable to explode. Such tempting war souvenirs as Viet Cong flags...
...south. The North Vietnamese, says one high-ranking Marine officer, are "no better at running these damned hills than we are, and they don't know the country any better. Once they commit themselves en masse down one of these draws, we can bomb them and shell them night...
...worked exactly the opposite. The light takes the pressure off the driver during that critical moment of approach." As a result of the test, Abilene will spend $5,900 for three more signals from its home-town inventor, James L. R. Hines, a longtime safety engineer for the Shell Oil Co. Houston plans to in stall 73 of them. And Hines, who spent nine years developing the system to "give a fellow a little better chance," has had inquiries from 19 foreign countries...
...least of the headaches con fronting officials in Manila is the pothole problem. Even the city's biggest thoroughfares are pocked with holes that resemble shell craters, and Filipino cartoonists are having a field day depicting delegates stranded in the concrete cavities while bulletins whiz over their heads. President Ferdinand Mar cos has made $190,000 available for a quick cosmetic job on the major arteries...
...coverage of astronautics alone, the networks will shell out a combined $20 million this year to handle all angles of the story-from anxious wives awaiting the return of the astronauts to the various manufacturers who have contributed to the space capsule. With 30-to 40-man staffs in Viet Nam, CBS and NBC spent over $500,000 apiece on war coverage last year. With the help of the Early Bird communications satellite, TV managed live coverage of the Gemini 6 splashdown...