Word: shell
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...dawn was breaking, she raked us with her shell, But we put trust in the turbines' thrust and our faith in Captain Bell...
Often in your columns you tell of a ship's having been brought to a halt because of a shell's having been fired across...
...have a fairly good imagination but I still can't figure out how the captain knows about this shot. Does the shell leave a smoke track? Does it look like a comet? Does the captain see the gunner aiming ahead of his path...
...When a captain gets an order to stop, hears the sound of a blank shell being fired, sees a puff of smoke, he usually stops. If he does not stop, a real shell may cross his bow. Real shells whistle...
...railroad. Hand-to-hand fighting was general throughout the isthmus, but except in the Summa wedge the Russians made no gains. Russians trying to advance over the ice toward Koivisto were blasted by the Finnish guns of that fortress. Tanks plunged through the shell-shattered ice. So fierce was the shelling that the Finns' gun-bores wore...