Word: concussional
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The Holocaust. Commander Robert Downes, damage control officer, had just left his cabin. Concussion hurled him back through the closed door and up against the outer bulkhead. The forward elevator, weighing 32 tons, popped up from the flight deck, its plungers blown from their sockets. In a control room in...
Stench of Death. Men began to come out of the numbed state in which, by instinct, they had performed their deeds, heroic or unheroic. The implacable Gehres gave them no rest. The hangar deck, where the worst fires had raged, was a nightmare of crushed planes, ruptured bulkheads, melted debris...
The little eight-landing-craft task force then withdrew and waited for the time fuses to work. The 85-pound charge went off like a popgun. It was disappointing. Then the "battleship" really erupted. A flat piece of steel, blew up like wastepaper in a column of grey smoke. Concrete...
John Dos Passos, novelist (Manhattan Transfer, Big Money) turned LIFE war correspondent in the Philippines, was reported knocked cold, gashed in the head, given a black eye and slight concussion when hit on the head by the wingtip of a landing Piper Cub plane. Correspondent Dos Passos merely noted that...
One day, Corporal Lodzinski went after water for some wounded, and caught a bomb burst in the back. He was many months in hospital, was then honorably discharged. Private Davidowicz had broken in action, had been dishonorably discharged for leaving his post in the face of enemy fire. He had...