Word: shells
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...handler and playmaker nonpareil, also wrangled with management; he and Lucas were soon traded. Their running mate, Dave Twardzik, stumbled about the court, a man suddenly severed from a rare athletic symbiosis. Forward Bobby Gross was injured for most of the season, and when he did play was so shell-shocked by the devastating changes that he was unable to blend into the new club. Presiding over it all was Coach Jack Ramsay, a fiercely proud tactician who did not coach as much as seek a vision of perfection on court. Ramsay was in turn bewildered, angry and, finally, bitter...
...despite all of those yards, when it was time to make the big play, neither offense could and the result was a shell of a football game--all of the numbers and none of the heart. That the Big Numbers came out even, 17-17, is a tribute more to the mediocrity of the Ivy League this year than to anything else...
...catalogue's descriptive paeans are seldom graphic about the weapons' deadly effects. Usually the language is willfully neutral: one shell that spews out steel pellets is merely "useful to engage massed infantry at close quarters." But peddler's enthusiasm can overcome the technocratic blankness. A 105-mm artillery piece is "robust" and its "lethal punch" is thus "ideal for use in tough limited war conditions in all climates." One transport is a "tough, roomy, dependable" aircraft, and the catalogue says of the AEL 4111 Snipe aerial drone for antiaircraft gunners: "The morale effect on weapons crews...
France's catalogue is not as lavish as Britain's, but its descriptions (in French, English and Spanish) are more vivid militarily and, in general, less polite. One piece of howitzer ammunition is touted as having "a better ballistic coefficient than the American shell," and a 30-mm aircraft round is "very effective against persons." A 22-lb. French "Commando" mortar is perfect for those times when combat squads "have to fight violently at very short distances." The brief entries tend to a breathless specificity. A smoke bomb lets a tank "escape temporarily from the adversary...
...Tasco Inc., a Shell Rock, Iowa, builder of hog barns, grew rapidly during the 1970s and saw its employment rolls swell...