Word: shrapnel
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...largely by professional outside agitators." With that, he led the visitors off to a private lunch at Birmingham's exclusively white sanctuary, "The Club." Then early next morning, two bombs exploded in a Negro district; there were no injuries, though several houses and cars were damaged by flying shrapnel. Through the rest of the week, Blaik and Royall spent their time listening to the problems of first the whites and then the Negroes. Said Dr. Lucius Pitts, president of the all-Negro Miles College: "It appears to me that this group is going to have rough sailing...
Route 66 (CBS, 8:30-9:30 p.m.). Line, a veteran of the South Viet Nam fighting, finds the lieutenant he hero-worshiped left with the mind of an eight-year-old as the result of a shrapnel wound. Repeat...
...Shrapnel & Atrocities. Perhaps most remarkable about the Boer War was its length: for nearly three years the might of the British Empire was fought off by a sprinkling of fiercely independent Dutch settlers in the interior of South Africa. The conflict saw history's last cavalry charge with lance and saber, and the first wide-scale use of shrapnel, barbed wire, trenches, machine guns. Resembling the American Civil War in fact as well as in fiction-formula, the Boer War found the most daring soldiers and the most skillful generals on the losing side, while the victors...
...said, "Shrapnel," so Tony says...
...Shrapnel though he is more inclined...