Word: fragmentism
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...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...
...want to be maudlin about this business, but they do feel an attachment to Harvard and a desire for its continued well-being and succuss as a pioneer in education. This sentiment they would like to express in a quiet, expenseless sort of way by observing at least a fragment of the peacetime Commencement tradition. Robert B. Wilcox...
After noon the stubborn ones came again -24 dive-bombers and torpedo planes. This time at least one attacker made good. He dropped a 500-pounder on one of the forward turrets. Captain Gatch, who was standing on the bridge's exposed catwalk, took a fragment of bomb in his neck. An artery was cut. His shoulder was torn. He was knocked out. But his ship got through...