Word: shrapnel
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Intercontinental contrasted eerily with the noisy candlelight poker and chess games of the correspondents who were not standing four-hour guard duty to keep out intruders. The hotel roof could hardly have been a better place for TV crews to grind away at air strikes. During the raids, shrapnel was occasionally fished out of the swimming pool, and a large time bomb planted in the hotel was disarmed and replanted in a trench on the nearby lawns. Beer soon ran out, but there was always fish or something else tasty for those cured of curry...
...than a month, the whole Liberal slate was hospitalized. After the candidates emerged, with crutches, wheelchairs and bandages, their campaign appearances resembled a mobile hospital ward. Ramon Bagatsing, who was elected Manila's new mayor last week, had lost a leg; Senator Jovito Salonga, another winner, received extensive shrapnel wounds. A Manila businessman observed: "It was like watching a hospital scene on television. But it will work for the Liberals, all right...
...hills beside Lake Victoria, to Gulu in the north. At the Entebbe International Airport, a rebel tank clanked up to the front door and fired a shell at the far wall; the target was a portrait of Obote, but three waiting passengers, including two Canadian priests, were killed by shrapnel...
...will not be playing her mod-witch part from Bugaloos, a fall TV show, but will serve as a surgical nurse with the Green Berets. The Nightingale role is hardly a new one for Colonel Raye, who has been a sometime practicing nurse ever since 1936. Twice hit by shrapnel during the Viet Nam years, she bravely classifies her wounds as "not serious. Once in the foot, once in the ribs. I've had worse hangovers...
...hardly miss. One shell exploded above the driver's seat; he was killed instantly but clung grotesquely to the wheel as the bus swayed another 60 yards down the road. The other shells hit the body of the vehicle, tearing out the floor and spraying the occupants with shrapnel. Bodies, bookbags and lunch boxes were strewn around the wreckage. Two teachers and seven children died instantly: another student and teacher died later, and the remaining 20 aboard the bus were all wounded. Nor did the toll end there. Shortly afterward, five parents speeding to see their children...