Word: shelled
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Back at Colonel Yeu's forward command post, Yeu was angered by the harassment of loyal Vietnamese air force planes, loudly threatened to shell the airfield immediately. The marines first ordered the Vietnamese airmen to stop their flights. Then Colonel John Chaisson jumped into an armed helicopter, flew to Yeu's command post and had his chopper put down directly in front of the howitzers. In hard Yankee accents, he delivered an ultimatum: "If you make one menacing move toward those artillery pieces, we must consider you hostile. We will annihilate you." By now, five batteries of marine...
...comet-like shape by the solar wind, a stream of charged particles continuously emitted from the sun at velocities that vary from 670,000 m.p.h. to about 1,600,000 m.p.h. On the side of the earth that faces the sun, the wind compresses the field into a rounded shell that extends only about 40,000 miles into space. On the dark (or antisolar) side, the field is pushed into a tail that is hundreds of thousands of miles long and waves in the solar breeze. Gaseous comet tails are similarly affected by the solar wind, which always blows them...
...build so perfect a gyroscope, Stanford Physicists William Fairbank and Francis Everitt will use a sphere of quartz coated with niobium, a metal that becomes a superconductor and shows no resistance to electric current when cooled to extremely low temperatures. The sphere will be placed inside an evacuated quartz shell, also coated with niobium, and suspended in an electrostatic field. Suspending it in this manner will allow it to spin in a near-perfect vacuum without touching anything; it will be free from all friction. The gyroscope container will be kept in a bath of liquid helium at a temperature...
...whisky with breakfast foods, apple juice and catchup. Arvind Mafatlal, 43, who as oldest brother became chair man of Mafatlal Gagalbhai after his father's death eleven years ago, is leading it away from textiles and into more profitable chemicals. He has undertaken joint ventures with both Shell and Montecatini, has a $140 million expansion program under way that will make the brothers India's biggest petrochemical producers...
...races will be held at 9 a.m. during high tide since at low tide there is not enough water to float a shell on the New York Athletic Club's trial course at Orchard Beach Lagoon in Pelham...