Word: fragment
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Executive Officer Roosevelt saw a gunner whose pants were rolled up, told him to get them down to avoid flash burns from enemy fire. The gunner had a bead on a bomber and could not comply; so Roosevelt unrolled one pants leg for him. At that moment a bomb fragment removed the gunner's other leg; Roosevelt suffered a slight hand wound. Big Pancho gave the gunner morphine, applied a tourniquet, lugged him below to sick bay. Says Reynolds: His crew worship the guy. They say he's terrific in combat...
...Days of Ma. The story behind this news was twelve years old, a suppressed fragment of modern history. The story began in the early '30s when years of misrule under a senile, corrupt bureaucracy brought the ancient tension between the Chinese ruling minority and the Moslem Turko peasantry to the breaking point. From Kansu, the terminal province of the Great Wall, ferocious Tungan cavalrymen entered Sinkiang in 1931 under the leadership of a 26-year-old horseman-Ma Chung-ying. To his banners rallied Turko peasants and Tungan (Chinese Moslem) rebels. Burning, looting, raping, they all but annihilated...
...Gould reported last week that Scribner's is interested in a fragment of his Oral History. Says Joe: "Willkie called his book One World. Mine will be called A Million Worlds. There are as many worlds as there are people, each having his own world. " Asked whether he liked his own world, Joe said: "I haven't decided...
...undergarduate raids in search of human skulls--highly prized as room ornaments. As a chemical laboratory it was the scene of a near tragedy when Charles William Eliot, then an undergraduate, touched off an explosive mixture in an iron kettle. The explosion shattered the kettle and a large fragment almost struck the chemist...
...spent shell fragment. . . tore a hole through my pup tent just beside me one noon while I was resting. I keep this, for I have a certain sentimental attachment for it. Had it been an inch longer, my life would have been a lot shorter...