Word: shrapnel
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...such totems of futurist affection as a 1911 Bleriot monoplane and a World War I Spad hanging from the cortile roof, and a vintage Bugatti by the canal entrance, to remind one of Marinetti's belligerent and much quoted dictum that "a roaring motorcar that seems to run ( on shrapnel is more beautiful than the Victory of Samothrace...
...movie warrior, he is a TV cartoon character, he is a plastic doll, he is a music-video creature and now, in candy racks all over America, he is chewing gum--Rambo black flak, jagged, black raspberry bits packed in foil pouches and meant to resemble shrapnel...
Still, East Germans will not have an easy time escaping to the West. Although East Berlin ordered the removal of fence-mounted shrapnel mines and automatic self-firing devices last year, other obstacles remain. Officials raised the electrified metal fences by more than one-third, to 9.8 feet, installed sensitive alarm devices and deployed a record 1,429 German Shepherds along the border. So far, those measures have proved successful. Only 30 people escaped in 1985, down from 54 a year earlier...
...vehicles are not permitted to move during the day. Trucks or jeeps are hidden beneath nearly every acacia tree. Antiaircraft guns are on constant alert. Every rebel building is covered with vines and tree branches; * some permanent structures have 2-ft.-thick stone walls that can withstand barrages of shrapnel. Civilians are regularly lectured on how to wipe burning napalm jelly from their skin...
Tick-Tick-Tick. The bomb squad races in, sweating profusely in their shrapnel-resistant suits...