Word: shelling
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...late 1940s, J.P.L. set a team to work looking for a solid fuel that would be used in long-range rockets. Requirements were that the fuel burn evenly, resist cracking under pressure, and be capable of insulating the thin shell of the rocket from the heat of its own combustion. They hit upon a polysulfide-a rubbery, sticky liquid that could be poured, solidified, then burned at a controllable rate. It worked, and is now the basis for the Navy's Polaris and all other solid-fuel U.S. rockets. The small company that made it, Thiokol, has become...
...rebuild the interior entirely, construction workers had to replace all of the old wooden beams and window sashes with steel ones. Hoisting the 54-foot steel supports for the new floors through the windows without knocking down the building's shell made it "the toughest job I've ever come across," Aspasquella observed...
With nothing but its exterior shell unchanged, Boylston will be a unique synthesis of old and new at Harvard. The outside is in the style of 18th century architecture, the inside newer than Quincy House...
...rock island of Manacle Shoal in the Caribbean is being tunneled to serve as an unsinkable ammunition ship. The labor force consists entirely of U.S. Negro enlisted men; directing them are three white officers. No one is under any illusion about the overhanging risk: a wrong move, a detonated shell, a rule-breaking smoke-and the whole lot of them could be blown up. Along with the danger come few compensations. For the Negroes, there is an occasional cockfight and beers on a nearby island; for the commander, who is sure that his dreary assignment is punishment for once having...
There is a place for the Catholic at Harvard if he can prove himself intellectually and prove that his Catholicism is an examined faith. He has to break the shell. It's easy to isolate oneself, but in isolation one can learn nothing about others or about oneself. Catholics are not unlike other students. On certain moral and theological questions there is more unity, but often this unity is a purely verbal affair and is splintered by diversity in personality...