Word: fragmentism
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...hollow-eyed women in mourning and women who look out of blank, uncomprehending eyes. Symbolic of Spain's people is the bronze statue of King Carlos in Toledo, which lies against its base with legs amputated by a shell, one arm gone and a gash from a shell fragment in its navel. Franco has decreed that the Alcazar be left unrestored, as a monument to "the fury of the Rojos...
...High Command, Hitler was waiting for the weekend of Aug. 4, anniversary of Britain's 1914 declaration of war, when the moon would be dark. Only troop move he made last week was to occupy, unopposed, the islet of Ushant off the tip of Brittany, westernmost fragment of France, 125 miles south of England's southwest tip, Land...
...latest feature to be added is "The College Pump" which first appeared in the March 8 issue as a column "for the stray line of Harvard verse, the pleasant non-sequitur of academic observation, and the simple fragment of phrase...
...Surgeon Kenneth Macfarlane Walker was a captain in Great Britain's Army Medical Corps. Statistically-minded, he noted that a third of the battlefield dead died of chest wounds, that as few as 3% of chest-wound victims reached a dressing station alive. Reason: even a tiny fragment of bomb or shell, piercing the chest cavity, can easily rip a large blood vessel, bring quick death...
...distracting, her clothes too Paris-perfect. He asked about her qualifications. She was 26 years old, had investigated conditions among textile work ers in France and England, had worked on a newspaper in Albany, N. Y., for the United Press in Paris, for the New Republic - a mere fragment of her full story...