Word: shell
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Axis dictators, he fomented no wars, rarely made speeches, indulged in no pageantry, maintained no sycophants to shout his praises. He sought friendship with all his Balkan neighbors and cemented a cordial entente with Greece's traditional enemy, Turkey. He was a hardheaded, hardworking, unpretentious administrator in shell-rimmed spectacles who rested his claim to authority on the fact that he got things done...
...Peters (William Gargan). He is still waiting at the end. Meanwhile, Miss Bishop almost forgets her academic career when she falls in love with a dashing young lawyer, Delbert Thompson (Donald Douglas). When he gets her man-mad cousin in trouble she gives him up, goes back into her shell. Next time she thinks of marrying it is a soulful professor at Midwestern John Stevens (Sidney Blackmer), but he turns out to have a wife in Virginia. Miss Bishop will not be unfaithful to her mission as a teacher by going off to Italy with Professor Stevens. Instead, she contents...
Vague as such psychiadabra may seem to laymen, the Army's psychiatrists have plenty of evidence to justify their concern. For the care of mentally disordered soldiers and veterans, the U. S. has spent $1,000,000,000 in 14 years. Less than half of these unfortunates have shell shock (from World War I) or other troubles directly attributable to military life. Moral: the rest should never have been admitted into the Army. Last week Colonel Rowntree's assistants reported that 10% of volunteers taken into the U. S. Army in 1940 began to display psychiatric difficulties after...
...Independence Day (declared a holiday that year by President Epitacio Pessôa), the people of Rio de Janeiro were awakened by the boom of cannon, the rattle of machine guns, the noise of troops tramping through the streets. News spread that Fort Copacabana had revolted, was shelling Rio's other forts and the Ministry of War. Artillery Lieutenant Siqueira Campos became the first hero of the Revolution of 1922 by dropping a shell squarely into a wing of the Ministry of War, in the heart of the city, six miles from Copacabana...
...fire. Through it the Stukas kept boring in. Bombs crashed alongside in columns of white water, battered the carrier's side, set her dancing like a cork in the heaving sea. Machine-gun bullets raked her decks, covered by now with a jagged carpet of splinters and shell casings...