Word: concussional
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Doom Deferred. Huge and helpless in the slow swells, the hulk of the Yorktown did not sink. Buckmaster ordered tugs and salvage vessels. The next day 160 picked men reboarded the carrier. They worked all night pumping out holds and cutting guns from the lower side. The destroyer Hammann was...
All this, but at the concrete bastion there had not yet been a sound. Then came the concussion. Even a mile away behind walls of concrete, there was a jerk, a jar and the observers felt as if Paul Bunyan had slapped them on the back.
To keep out of the army, conscripts have been known to chop off fingers, toes, hands, feet, have all their teeth pulled (suspicious examiners always check with the malingerer's dentist), puncture their eardrums, blind an eye with acids or alkalis, slash tendons, break bones in their arms and...
Most belly-rippers in these cases were fragments of bomb casing, sometimes as large as walnuts. Common abdominal injuries included bowels scorched by incendiary bullets, coils of intestine cut to ribbons by flying glass, or loops of gut hanging out of slashed stomachs. Sometimes, although no missiles penetrated the abdominal...
Articulate, charming and forthright, Vicki Baum made excellent copy. She told women's clubs that American men were boyish and courteous but not quite aware enough of the necessity of romance; she fell off a horse and got a mild concussion; she spent several months in Bali and months...