Word: fragment
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...took the hill, but was captured with his men when ammunition ran out and he was cut off. He's a young officer, not over 28 years old, and in El Guettar I pulled out the root of his front tooth that had been hit by a shell fragment, as is reported in TIME...
...Unlike many greater and lesser poets, moreover, he has constantly grown and changed. In his youth he was most notably a satirist; then a mosaic artist of exquisite sensibility, a man who used the perfected expression of past artists as frankly as he used his own, to arrange, fragment by fragment, edge by edge, an image of the desolation of his time (The Waste Land...
...stood on a hill watching troops move forward, a shell exploded close by. A four-inch fragment tore across his left shoulder and smashed the tip of his collar bone. A splinter about an inch and a half long pierced his helmet and came to rest against the base of his skull. The General walked to a jeep, rode three hours to a hospital, was operated on, said: "I'll be back there soon. I'm looking for my clothes now. The shoulder doesn't hurt any. After another good night's sleep...
Unfortunately the lead piece, Henry Miller's "The Loveliest Inanimate Object in Existence," will confuse and discourage the uninitiate. Readers unaccustomed to Advocate vagaries will proclaim this fragment from "The Air Conditioned Nightmare" a new and more foolish form of word game, while an older audience will have new cause to regret the Advocate's inability to refuse the mediocre material contributed by the literary elite. Even Reed Pfeuffer's provocative illustration fails to justify the space consumed by the overly obvious gibberish it illustrates. Day Lee has retold the story about the boy and the B.B. gun without sufficient...
...church dues by his senior warden, was a reply, in effect: "Dad, if your check is still good, you pay my dues and when the war is over I'll pay you back." Also in Dad's possession was a foot-square slab of grey stone, a fragment of the bombed House of Commons, a gift from Parliament...