Word: shelled
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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That was the shrewdest blow of them all and the one to which Charles de Gaulle, the master tactician, reacted the fastest. French farmers and business men, someone may have told him, consider that his crockery smashing on economic cooperation is hurting their pocketbooks. Shedding his shell of ice, the general hobnobbed for an hour in Paris with Britain's Tory Leader Ted Heath, discussed possible British admission to the Common Market, which De Gaulle himself prevented in 1963. Then he met with his Cabinet and had the word put out that "a certain number of obstacles . . . are diminishing...
Several of the pioneer car-analysis stations were set up by Mobil and Shell when they discovered that their customers were disenchanted with existing garage methods. And car manufacturers only wish their own dealers could afford the same elaborate diagnostic equipment the analyst can offer. Says E. B. Rickard, manager of Ford's service and parts division: "It's just like modern medicine. The modern car is an enormously complicated piece of machinery. In a person, if you have to have your tonsils taken out, you want to be absolutely sure they have to come out. That...
...Chin was not the first "human bomb" to be operated on successfully by American combat surgeons [Nov. 12]. During the Battle of the Coral Sea in May 1942, Navy Fire Controlman Allen L. Gordon, aboard the battleship South Dakota, was struck by a 20 mm. antiaircraft shell that pierced his intestines and lodged near his left hip. He was taken to a makeshift field hospital on a South Pacific island, where the live shell was removed by three Navy doctors (of whom I was one), working around a chin-high screen of armor plate...
...Cross orderly in Madrid during the Spanish Civil War, I was present when a badly frightened soldier was admitted to an army hospital with an eight-inch unexploded mortar shell partially embedded in his shoulder. Surgeons and demolition experts deliberated on the advisability of deactivating the shell before attempting surgical removal. In the meantime, the victim decided to take matters into his own hands, forcibly wrenched the shell from his shoulder. He tried to hand it to one of the experts, but quite suddenly he was all alone in the room. Eventually the shell was deactivated, and the soldier made...
...when I commanded the 29th Ordnance Bomb Disposal Squad near Portsmouth, England, I was called to a U.S. Army hospital and asked to identify an object silhouetted on X-ray plates. It was a 20-mm. shell, embedded in the chest of an American merchant seaman who had been on the deck of his ship at Omaha Beach, June 6. A surgeon cut the man open, grasped the shell with forceps and put it into my hands. There were no sandbags, though I did observe a bead or two of sweat...