Word: shelling
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Bradley commission showed considerable bravery in tossing its controversial recommendations into the shot and shell of an election year. Indeed, the commission acknowledged the political power of veterans' organizations by noting that existing veterans' programs "have been enacted in response to minority pressures." But more than a year of intensive study had proved to the commission that the old arguments for gifts to nondisabled veterans are outdated, if not phony, today...
...about moving the statue into its new home. But the goat was still at work, and in the midst of the heavy task the workmen's cable broke, and the Buddha crashed to the ground, badly cracked. To the priests' surprise, the plaster was only a shell; beneath it shone the glint of metal. Trai Mitra's old plaster Buddha was a mere mummy case concealing a beautiful sculptured image wrought of 60% gold. Though to the pious Buddhist one divine image is as valuable as another, regardless of intrinsic worth, it was nice to know that...
...reshuffling paid off handsomely. Stroke Larry Cabot waited until the Massachusetts Avenue Bridge, half a mile from the start, before making his bid. Then the shell pushed rapidly ahead as the oarsmen cut the water cleanly and left M.I.T. in their puddles. Times were: Harvard 7:32.8; M.I.T. 7:49; Dartmouth...
...junior varsity heavyweights turned in as one-sided and as impressive a performance as they paraded home three and one-half lengths ahead of M.I.T. and B.U. The Crimson shell was never headed. Stroke Carlo Zezza dropped his opening 42 beat start to 32 which he held for most of the race. With each stroke, the shell edged away over the calm river, finishing with a 36 sprint, as M.I.T. and Boston University were strung out behind. Times were: Harvard 10:04.4; M.I.T...
Paid in Pink Shells. It was but a beginning. In a cave, the entrance to which was marked by a ship's red lantern, dismayed Captain Overton found many "immoral effigies" of ladies constructed of gourds and coconut shells. They were brightly but lightly dressed in "a set of signal flags." Inside the cave were bucketfuls of pink sea shells. "I made myself pay one [pink shell] every time I went . . .," Bunt explained, hoping that this example of self-control would show that he had tried at least to keep some check on his Buntism...