Word: shrapnel
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...closely as his company protects its secrets. He bridles at revealing much about his background or family, plainly believing that such matters are his own business. He fought with the U.S. Army on Okinawa in World War II and was wounded in the foot by a piece of shrapnel. He and his wife Carole have three daughters and two sons. He drives himself to work in a six-year-old car whose make he will not divulge and lives in a house he will not describe beyond noting that it is "big enough to accommodate five children...
...police that Kahl was the only other person in the house, officials planned to examine the fugitive's dental records before ruling that it was Kahl. The state medical examiner performed an autopsy and issued a "presumptive identification" based on the fact that the body bore evidence of shrapnel wounds, which Kahl had suffered in World...
...were present at the time of the massacre it still has an inescapable presence. "I always think of those days," says a middle-aged Palestinian man who lost his wife and five children in the killings. "But I cannot think too much." The man has a piece of shrapnel in his skull and another in his leg from the bombs that exploded during the siege of Beirut. He now tends a small clothing store with his sole surviving relative, his father. Says the son: "When I think of the killings, I am afraid that it could happen again...
Explosives experts said if 1000 pounds of dynamite were detonated around the monument only moderate structural damage would result However, hundreds of pieces of shrapnel could be thrown up to 1800 feet and the blast would be strong enough to break windows in the White House 2000 feet away...
Scores of tourists managed to get out when the siege started. Nearby government buildings were evacuated; thousands of employees were sent home. Since the White House was in shrapnel range, President Reagan stayed on the side facing away, toward Pennsylvania Avenue...