Word: shells
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...basic training. It's all really just a con on the part of the moviemakers, led by director Penny Marshall. The insensitive and materialistic teacher shall learn humility from his students. They shall in turn learn that underneath Shakespeare's big, arcane words and underneath Bill's hard shell, good hearts are athump. We shall all have a nice sniffle as we learn how easily class and racial distinctions can be dissolved by simple goodwill...
...weeklong alert. General Gary Luck, the senior U.S. commander in South Korea, cautions that his forces will have as little as 12 hours' warning. A congressional defense expert whittles that still lower, predicting that advance notice "is as long as it takes to load and fire an artillery shell: about 10 seconds...
...Right after that they called me over to a little house, where they told me there was somebody down. It is perhaps the worst thing I saw. His name was Emile Renault, and he had taken a mortar shell in his shoulder. He had a gaping hole from his collarbone to his belt. He wasn't dead -- he was looking around -- but you could see his heart beating and his lungs breathing...
McDonald's knows it. too. That's why they reportedly are prepared to shell out $500,000 to fight this battle out in court. Once they've actually chosen a desired location, all they'll need is some public support...
...deadly, of a mostly invisible enemy. Some were as simple as nails slathered with excrement pushed through the bottoms of discarded C-ration cans. But the booby trap Puller stepped on, while in full flight from a squad of advancing North Vietnamese regulars, was made with a howitzer shell. Puller described the moment in Fortunate Son: "I thought initially that the loss of my glasses in the explosion accounted for my blurred vision, and I had no idea that the pink mist that engulfed me had been caused by the vaporization of most of my right and left legs...