Word: shells
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...ancestral home when suddenly the great wooden doors of the 18th century castle were blasted open by a violent explosion. Through the breach burst eight gunmen. The masked and heavily armed terrorists shot the victims through their heads, set off incendiary bombs that burned Tynan Abbey to a shell and fled -right into the gun sights of waiting police, who had been alerted by the blasts...
...first training camp, Vermeil served notice that the Eagles were going back to bedrock, Bednarik style. Practices were suddenly twice as long as usual. Rules were rigid. Shell-shocked rookies and veterans alike crumpled under Vermeil's salt-mine regime. In the first ten days, a dozen players walked out of camp. Vermeil remained unfazed: "They don't take the Marines and train them on the beach with ice cream in their hands and then tell them to fight. We're preparing these guys for eleven individual wars. That's what it amounts...
...ancient village in a forlorn corner of the Italian campaign; the film was chopped from five reels to three and its release delayed a year, until after V-E day. Let There Be Light (1945-46) showed the scarring effects of the war on soldiers hospitalized for shell shock; the War Department slapped a ban on it. Wrote Critic James Agee in the Nation of May 11, 1946: "I don't know what is necessary to reverse this disgraceful decision, but if dynamite is required, then dynamite is indicated...
...great white Batmobile that will be piloted by Astronauts John Young and Robert Crippen is already two years behind its timetable and $3.6 billion over budget. Only a year ago workmen had diagnosed the ship's ailment as "smallpox," a reference to the holes left in its outer shell when heat-dissipating tiles became unglued. At one time or another, the entire project became unglued. Perhaps it was prophetic that the task force proposing the space shuttle back in 1969 was headed by Vice President Spiro Agnew. In any case, Columbia offers in its fashion a symbol not only...
...testimony that they had heard a series of rapid shots, clearly not the product of an old shotgun. Police, it turned out, had been aware of some of these witnesses' accounts, but had either ignored them or lost the records. Nor had they revealed the discovery of three shell casings at the scene that could not possibly have come from Banks' weapon. The shells produced at trial, theorize defense attorneys, came from test firings by the then chief of detectives, who had custody of Banks' gun and was a major state witness. The detective, Phillip ("Shug") Howard...