Word: shiner
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...have plodded across the vast "Hall of Lost Steps" to gawk at a giant diamond in the floor. Last week it was gone from its star-shaped setting. On the Day of St. Dismas, patron of good thieves, a thief crashed the glass covering, chiseled out the 23 -carat shiner. * Alongside he jotted cabalistically: 2:45-3:10, then ap parently left by the Capitolio's front door...
...Break. Out of the leading Sherman's turret popped a bandaged head. The man with the bandage and the big shiner on his right eye yelled the proper password. He was Lieut. Colonel Creighton ("Abe") Abrams, commanding the 4th Armored Division's rescue spearhead...
...body of an Army officer discovered in the Charles River by a Harvard student Monday has been definitely identified as Lt. Louis Shiner. An Army Board of Inquiry has been held on the case and the police have closed the investigation...
...Shiner had been reported missing in November, described as 33 years old, five feet, ten inches, and 155 pounds. The dead man fitted this description and was definitely identified by credentials. Although the Army Board of Inquiry has taken the matter out of the Metropolitan Police's hands, their examination resulted in the pronouncement of the cause of death as drowning, manner not known. There were no signs of violence...
...chaining of Canada's Dieppe raiders (TIME, Oct. 19). But the Canadians were so banged up in the fight (one man had his skull fractured by a jam jar) that they sent for reinforcements before attending to the 400 barricaded Nazis in Bowmanville. Said one guard with a shiner: "The Nazis are pretty good fellows generally, but they're cross as bears today...