Word: shells
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Walking past their shell--nicknamed "no prisoners"--a member of the Harvard team said the race was better than last year, when they rowed without their jerseys and the cold spray made a stinging impression on both backs and minds...
This year the rowers will face well-rounded squads from Cornell and Princeton. Princeton is definitely the team to beat, since six men in its varsity shell will be returning this year. Harvard has only three veterans in the first boat this year, but its team depth is renowned. Any team that can win the junior varsity race 14 years running doesn't have a tradition for winning at the Sprints--it has a dynasty...
...hurt the Russian people, not their leaders, and though they may be necessary they are ironic in the extreme. And the proposals to end diplomatic relations with Russia, or to cease arms negotiations, are the most foolhardy of all. They will only drive each side further into its paranoid shell...
...true martyr seeks martyrdom. Robert Gould Shaw loved music and drawing, spoke German and Spanish easily, dropped out of Harvard to try his hand at business (the Shaws had grown rich in the China trade). He was a serious youth but no zealot. Before the first Confederate shell hit Fort Sumter, however, Shaw had already enlisted. When Andrew offered him command of the black 54th, he wrote back saying he lacked experience. He was only 25. Then he sent a countermanding telegram of acceptance. "Now I feel ready to die," said his proud mother, a dedicated abolitionist...
...muttered, "They're firing away like madmen. Let's hope they'll use up all their ammunition." Lieut. Jorge, a squad commander, struggled to set up a 60-mm mortar while his men fired M79 grenade launchers at the enemy gunners. When the first mortar shell overshot its target, a taunting cry echoed from the guerrillas' hilltop position: "Come and get us, you queer cowards...