Word: concussional
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Nothing remained where the Mont Blanc had been. A half-ton fragment of her anchor was found three miles away. A gigantic rock, torn from the harbor bed, killed 64 workmen on a pier. In Halifax, whole streets of houses crumpled as if struck by a giant hand. The concussion...
It was almost dawn when we came to blow the fighter strip. There was grey over the hills and we were eating the last bacon & eggs at the table. Demolition bombs hammered the air above, beyond, all about us with their concussion. Sometimes the blast would be infinitesimal, other times...
Well, after I'd got all this sorted out I came back to see about living in our old place myself. Every time there was a new bomb, and they were thick on our district, we had to shoot away from the walls, since any heavy concussion would have...
Along with all the other bad news, Berlin admitted that it was more or less true about Field Marshal Rommel: he had indeed met with a deplorable accident while motoring in France during an Allied air raid. The Marshal, in fact, had had a brain concussion, though his condition was...
But the robombs' blast, for some strange reason, also shattered and scattered more glass-as sharp-piked shards and as fine-ground, bulletlike pellets. Far from a bomb's concussion center, well beyond the range of missiles caught up in its cyclonic force, Londoners found themselves caught in...