Word: fragment
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Aluminum relics of the Navy's late dirigible Shenandoah turned up in Ohio where the airship crashed 16 years ago. Into a collection bin at Point Pleasant, N.J., went a fragment of the German Zeppelin Hindenburg, which burned at Lakehurst...
Listening to other labor prisoners long-windedly complaining of the frame-ups that had put them in prison, Schmidt used to say, "Thank God, Jim, we are guilty." Bits of his story-the"true story" of the McNamara case-filtered out to different people, each having a fragment, like the scattered parts of a jigsaw puzzle. Last week, after 30 years in prison, death came also to the dynamiter...
When Miss Lutyens and her bronze baby took to the London subways, sleepy air-raid refugees rubbed their eyes in horror. On the blacked-out train ride to Liverpool a flashlight suddenly revealed Miss Lutyens and her infantile fragment to a woman seated opposite. The woman fainted. While waiting for the boat (the White Star Liner Georgic) in Liverpool, Miss Lutyens stored the statue with her other baggage in a basement. Meanwhile Liverpool, too, had an air raid. When she returned for the baby, she had to dig it out from under a heap of bomb-strewn rubble. She trundled...
...Chinese Christians," thinks Mr. Barnett, "can teach Americans a lot." A symbol of their spirit is the paperweight on his Manhattan desk - a fragment of the bomb with which a Japanese plane com pletely destroyed the big Y auditorium at Chungking two days before he got there last June. Though Chungking's Y has now been bombed five times, the work goes on regardless. Says its dogged Chinese general secretary: "They may destroy all our buildings, but they can't destroy...
...there any way to hear the other side anywhere? Vag had caught a snatch of it when Russ Nixon spoke at Kirkland, and another fragment when Paul Sweezy had his turn at Dunster. ... But Vag wanted to hear more...