Word: shelling
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...bomb under each wing for an attack on a troublesome artillery battery could now devastate an army's reserve-supply area. The artillery commander who might have aimed an 8-in. howitzer at a crossroads could now aim a similar weapon, fire an atomic shell and wipe out the heart of a whole infantry division. A Navy torpedo plane could launch an atomic torpedo that could lift a ship out of the water; a destroyer could fire an atomic depth charge that would crush submarines like eggshells...
Suitcase Size. During the Yucca Flat tests, one baby bomb was parachuted out of a B-36, exploded at 30,000 ft. amid a cluster of other parachutes carrying little metal canisters. Probable purpose: to estimate the effect of an atomic aerial explosion, such as an antiaircraft shell or missile, on the metal parts of bombers. Another blast was exploded underground (TIME, April 4), gouging a mammoth crater and tossing a column of dirt hundreds of feet into the sky. Reportedly, the bomb was no bigger than a suitcase...
...bombardment lasted for more than an hour, an enemy shell every two minutes or so-American shells as it happened, given to the Binh Xuyen by the French during the Indo-China War, when the terrorists were supposed to be helping fight the Communists. Our Nationalist garrison leaned forward impassively on their weapons, expecting an infantry attack. 'We are completely encircled.' a report came through to us. Outside I could see a number of grotesquely related things: fire leaping from densely packed wooden shacks; a rat scurrying down a gutter to escape; refugees huddled or fleeing, silhouetted against...
...Sirens howled. Telephones jangled. A baby wailed. A scout car was hit, its machine gunner twisted dead out of the hatch, and it came screaming back out of the battle in reverse. Yet for all the commotion and concussion, the young Vietnamese Nationalists were calm. Just as one terrorist shell exploded a few feet from headquarters, pitting the walls with its fragments, one Nationalist turned on the overhead fan to keep me-a visiting foreigner-cool in the seasonable summer heat...
After chief funnyman Peter H.C.J. Williams '56 found at the last minute he could not squeeze into a shell, the other seven humor men came in for a slight dunking. The Ibis shell sank after crashing into the center support on the Cottage Farm Bridge...