Word: shells
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...British task force has one weapon that would probably have downed the Exocet. The British-built Seawolf, a 6½-ft.-long missile, is capable of intercepting a 4½-in. shell. It might have stopped the Exocet, but within the task force, only the frigates Broadsword and Brilliant are armed with the Seawolf. Instead, the Sheffield carried the Sea Dart, a reliable but older missile, that, so far as is known, was never fired...
Finally I was told there was a plane ready to take me back to Buenos Aires. From the outside it was a normal Boeing 707 with Aerolineas Argentinas markings. Only after I boarded did I realize that the Argentines had had the last laugh: the plane was an empty shell used for transporting cargo and troops. It might be uncomfortable enough with several hundred soldiers as its only source of heat, but a single passenger sitting on a bare metal floor in the darkness was not enough to keep the temperature above that of a meat locker. The last sentence...
...tables turned dramatically, however, in the second half Dartmouth broke out of its shell to outscore the Crimson. 3-0, over the third period and half of the fourth forcing Harvard into fumbled ground balls and humbled passes with a physical, revitalized defense...
...dynasty stalled. An upstart crew from Princeton blazed over Lake Qunsigamond in Worcester to surprise the lightweights, while a brushing shell from Yale took a narrow victory from the heavies...
...varsity lightweights have a second seed behind Yale, a projection based on the inconclusive results of the "HYP" race two weeks ago. In that match, Yale downed Harvard by just two feet after the Crimson shell had trouble with a course marker losing valuable seconds...