Word: shrapnel
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...during the Korean War. A World War II veteran and a longtime combat aviator, Glenn had been assigned to fly F9F Panther jets in an attack squadron running raids out of Pohang. During one especially hellish run, Glenn encountered an unexpectedly heavy barrage of antiaircraft fire. A cloud of shrapnel ripped one bomb from the undercarriage of his Panther, then another. A second blast punched more than 200 holes in the skin of his plane. Glenn struggled for a few moments to keep his wounded aircraft stable and then realized the effort was futile. Keying open his microphone, he called...
...fought their own divorce wars. When America Ehnot, 25, a Seattle marketing rep, told her father she was getting married next spring, he blankly looked back and forth between her and her fiance. "Why?" he asked. "You've already got six marriages between you." But as kids took the shrapnel from their parents' breakups, the result was not wariness of marriage but a desire to try harder and do better. "And we don't want to start in our mid-30s," says Los Angeles bank manager Shannon Kowalewski, 27. "They saw their parents go through all these possessions--new lovers...
...abortion-clinic attack, when a second explosion injured rescue workers responding to the first blast, apparently by design. This time police were able to detonate the second bomb harmlessly. The bomb that did go off inside the club had been stuffed with nails to serve as shrapnel, as was the Centennial Park weapon. And the bomb found last week in the lounge's parking lot was hidden in a backpack, as was the Olympic bomb. While the parallels were hardly conclusive, Atlantans awoke Saturday morning to face the possibility that their city harbored a serial bomber...
...National Laboratory, who has done extensive work with alternative-fuel vehicles, doesn't think the Rosens have addressed the safety problems inherent in flywheels. A wheel operating at such a high velocity can explode if knocked off-line--say by hitting a pothole--turning high-tech carbon fibers into shrapnel. "In the final analysis, the design needs a lot of work on housing and containment. I don't think he has the ultimate power train. No disrespect intended. This is simply an observation that these guys with very limited funds are trying to do what Detroit did over decades." Chrysler...
...solid, with just one major public spat in 22 years. It even survived a bankruptcy and a fire-destroyed home. But now JANE PETTY, wife of paler-version-of-Bob-Dylan TOM PETTY, has filed for divorce. In an interview last year, Petty said his marriage had "taken some shrapnel. We do walk with a slight limp." Expect headlines with plays on the word heartbreaker, and some wistful songs from...