Word: shells
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...sleep five nights in a row with rotting corpses." Is he afraid of dying? "Of course not," he says. "If I were, I wouldn't be in the army." While most of his comrades carry lucky charms, Mohammed wears only an empty 9-mm shell casing around his neck. He is of a breed of soldier who knows nothing in life except battle, hunger, pain, cold and thirst. He and his friends say they are determined to die in the saddle, "like true Goran...
...abandoned rebel vehicles. Government spokesmen later said that the soldiers were reconnoitering along a road that "might have been mined." Finally, a day after the funeral, Hernu told the French Parliament that the deaths had occurred when one of the soldiers "imprudently or perhaps accidentally" mishandled a 90-mm shell...
Getting ahold of Burton S. Dreben '49 is like playing a shell game...
...fact, in the game's opening few minutes all the Crimson got was shell shocked...
Mitterrand's response came a few hours later at a rare televised press conference. The plan, he declared, would go forward. The state had spent $2.1 billion from 1981 to 1983 to cover deficits in the steel industry, and it would probably shell out an additional $1.3 billion this year alone. "Can we go on devoting subsidies to losing enterprises forever?" asked Mitterrand. The steel plan is part of an overall restructuring program designed to make France's heavy industry competitive by trimming excess capacity and modernizing production. The process could eliminate as many as 60,000 jobs...