Word: shelling
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...crowd of 500 crammed the crusty old castle's gold and white Prunksaal-chosen for its fine baroque acoustics-and waited to see how Kirkpatrick would survive. Massive and leonine behind his shell rims, the harpsichordist filled the concerto with muted and lyrical brilliance, the fantasy with stringent clarity, the variations with authoritative grandeur. Then, dead tired, he faced the crowd of critical Bach addicts, smiled like a boy as they cheered, clapped and stamped on the floor with enthusiasm...
Like a tortoise shell on Asia's back, Afghanistan lies athwart the spiny Hindu Kush mountains, sloping northward to the Oxus River and Russia, eastward to the Khyber Pass. Perhaps no land has been so trodden upon by history and yet kept its independence. Darius, Alexander, Genghis Khan, Tamerlane, Babur all invaded it. In the 19th century the British Empire, following a northwesterly course, approached the Hindu Kush and southward-marching Russians. In the end, Britain and the Czars, fearful of what might happen if their armies met, agreed to keep Afghanistan as a buffer state...
...Products Inc. Alco and Manhattan's Stone & Webster Engineering Corp. will start building the $2,096,753 plant this year at Fort Belvoir, Va., where it will be used to train Army engineers in atomic power-station construction and maintenance. The reactor, housed in a vapor-tight steel shell, will turn water into steam, light 600 houses. A single charge of atomic fuel will run the reactor for 18 months. In an emergency, it can be hooked up to a conventional steam-generating plant...
Better Conditioned. For all their troubles, the Krasnoe Znamia crew, Russia's heavyweight eight, did well enough in the first heats of the race for the Grand Challenge Cup. In their borrowed shell, they came home half a length ahead of Jesus College, Cambridge. Next they raced the Vancouver Rowing Club (the University of British Columbia's varsity eight). The Canadians, too, had been delayed by the strike. Moreover, half their crew had come down with nasty skin infections. This was their first race of the regatta...
...Loser Douglas, it wasted no time taking off on a brand-new plane for long-range runs. Douglas announced that it would build a true-jet 80-to-125 passenger DC-8 transport to fly nonstop across the U.S. in less than five hours, planned to shell out between $40 million and $60 million to get the DC-8 in the air by 1958. Though Douglas has no firm orders for its DC-8, the company is betting that it will be the first U.S. planemaker to put a true-jet transport in airline service. Boeing Airplane Co., which gambled...