Word: shells
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...beachhead in the Pacific. He was scared to death. Heavy enemy fire was killing his buddies all around him. When a shell burst near by, he felt an excruciating pain and the sensation of blood pouring down his leg. There was a call for a corpsman, and he was carried to a medical station, where doctors discovered he had indeed been hit-on his canteen. They sent him back out. More shells, more bombs...
...carried him to the medical station. The doctor took some tweezers, picked out a few fragments of metal from his face, slapped on some adhesive bandages and sent him back to fight once more. By then, almost his entire company had been wiped out. For the third time, a shell burst near him. It tore off his leg. He did not feel a thing...
...spare time, the athlete many consider the finest all-around graduating senior took to the lacrosse field (freshman year), softball field (sophomore year) and the Charles River in a Radcliffe crew shell (junior year) for one-year stints in sports in which she'd never participated before...
...addition, the stroke rate is much faster than a regular crew shell, which averages somewhere in the 30 strokes per minute range. In Hong Kong, the crews will average 90 strokes a minute during actual racing, though the highest they've done thus far is 76 per minute...
...University tries to be a very good to its alumni, pampering them every chance it gets. The reason is clear to see: if the grass is particularly green this time of year, then maybe the grads will remember how green the grass was in their day and shell out a little money for some more fertilizer...