Word: shells
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...ambulance left the shell-battered camp on Beirut's southern outskirts shortly before dusk without evacuating any wounded Palestinians...
...THRASHING FURY swells within your trembling shell. With your face twitching furiously in all directions, you passionately smash your chair through the fourth floor dorm window and jump head first onto the cold, hard cement...
...Internal Revenue Service for help in tracing the money of tax cheats have up to now gone unanswered. As Planning Minister Ricaurte Vasquez has observed, "Only two things are certain: death and taxes. We're still working on solving the first one." A Panamanian lawyer who set up several shell companies for former Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos is more direct: "It's none of my business where the money comes from...
...American poet is to be transcendent and new." Farewell to Henry Adams' Virgin, to the Renaissance and Gothic nostalgia that had assuaged the cultural elites of New York and Boston at the end of the 19th century; welcome to the dynamo, to the total plan, the slick shell housing, the fins and flanges, the didactic sheen of stainless steel, the Aztec-style bracelet of imperishable Bakelite. Goodbye, Hell's Kitchen; hello, skyscraper...
These studies have demonstrated that a laser system powerful enough to destroy or disable missiles would also be able to destory aircraft, ships and entire cities. The amount of energy required to burn through the shell of an unprotected missile is about 120 times that required to ignite typical construction materials...