Word: shrapnel
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...shrapnel and rifle fire in the last days of Bataan's defense, Marcos was captured by the Japanese and began the infamous Death March half dead already. He was imprisoned at Camp O'Donnell, where Filipinos and Americans died at the rate of 300 a day. There, he says, "I learned to hate." At Manila's Fort Santiago, where the Japanese Kempei Tai (secret service) tortured him in the hope that he would reveal the whereabouts of Filipino guerrilla groups, Marcos refused to talk. The Japanese pumped him full of water and jumped on his stomach. After eight days...
...terrain was as tough as any the U.S. Marines had ever contested. It combined the horror of a Guadalcanal jungle with the exhausting steepness of the slopes at Chapultepec. Added to that were fusillades of bullets as ferocious as at Tarawa and showers of shrapnel that turned the forest into a tropical Belleau Wood. But "the Rock-pile," as Viet Nam's latest big battleground has come to be called, is weirdly unique. There, just south of the inaccurately named Demilitarized Zone, a task force of six Marine battalions has been battling two entire divisions of North Vietnamese regulars...
...304th-is preparing to move south. U.S. planes pounded the DMZ again last week, and ranged north into North Viet Nam's Panhandle to blast the Yen Xa railway and highway bridge and flatten a dozen antiaircraft sites. One Navy Phantom was hit by a chunk of shrapnel that slashed through the ejection seat, grazed the pilot's helmet, then ripped out through the canopy. The pilot made it safely back to his carrier. Strike pilots operating near
Anthills & Bullrings. Eisenstaedt learned to train his vision long before he turned to the camera as a career. A German artilleryman whose legs were nearly ripped off by shrapnel in World War I, he existed afterward by odd jobs -until 1928, when he sold his first picture to the Berliner Tageblatt. He had been using a camera since the age of twelve (his first subject: the family bathroom), studied light in the works of Rembrandt and Rubens. But it was his ability to be at the right place at the right time, plus millisecond timing, that by 1931 made...
...N.A.R. estimates, homemade rockets were killing or maiming one out of every seven kids and laymen attempting to mix fuel and fire a backyard bird. Explosive mixtures of sulphur and zinc dust blinded and burned dozens of people; lead pipes packed with match heads blew up like shrapnel in the inventors' faces...