Word: fragmentism
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...conscious all the way down and comfortable, too," he told newsmen. "I could see the earth whirling by me, for I was in a fast body spin. . . . Then I whipped through a fragment of cloud and my goggles frosted up. ... I raised one side of the goggles and glanced at the sensitive altimeter." By this time he was in a dizzy end-over-end spin. He flung out one arm, stopped the spin and plummeted straight again...
...Three dud shells lie in what must have been a garden. A dud bomb is buried in the roadside mud. The front half of an armored car is parked in the shadow of what was once a house. A bent, bullet-riddled fragment of what had been a tank lies near a dirt-caked helmet. The helmet looks like a tortoise's back: it smells sour...
...Behind is ... testimony to the power of artillery: hole upon hole, fragment upon fragment, a worn shred torn from the Völkischer Beobachter, the soggy yellow bones of a hand, helmets, old shoes, pieces of steel, an unexploded stick of bombs, unidentifiable fragments...
...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...