Sentence examples for loaded shell from inspiring English sources

Frozen grease had to be removed from every loaded shell and vehicles had to be heated for hours before use.

As the raiders moved south they captured and paroled over a thousand Confederates, and they destroyed 500 stands of arms, dozens of rail cars, several thousand loaded shells and large amounts of food supplies (including 50,000 pounds of rebel bacon in a single day).

"They showed guys loading shells into artillery batteries; armored convoys over and over again; bored soldiers digging in with very little actual combat or shooting or violence," said John R. MacArthur, publisher of Harper's and author of "Second Front," about media coverage in the first gulf war.

At 10 18 p.m. on July 17 , 1944 an explosion ripped through the Navy's Port Chicago ammunition depot 30 miles northeast of San Francisco while Navy stevedores, all of them black, were loading shells and bombs aboard the cargo ship E. A. Bryan, bound for the Pacific.

Though they were loaded one shell at a time, they could fire three times faster than muzzleloaders.

["Langrel": irregular pieces of iron loaded into shell casings for the purpose of ripping the enemy's sails in naval battles; obsolete.] He clutched the telephone like an osculatorium and did not allow himself to think about what lay beyond that instant.

This paper aims at describing the buckling behaviour of transversely loaded composite shell structures.

The transient and steady-state instability of an axially loaded cylindrical shell is discussed in the present paper.

The hull is modelled as a fluid loaded cylindrical shell with ring stiffeners and two equally spaced bulkheads.

The stability failure of the axially loaded cylindrical shell is considered as the last unresolved classical stability problem, although it has been investigated for over 100 years.

B'Tselem said it believed the military was investigating cases in which Israeli soldiers were accused of firing at Palestinians who waved white flags, and where they were accused of firing flechettes, deadly sharp metal darts loaded into shells, and one case in which a white phosphorous shell was fired into a family house killing six people.