Word: shrapnel
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...raider hurled shrapnel for a while, to destroy as many survivors as possible, perhaps fearing a death-rattle torpedo attack and perhaps also to prevent being identified. Scarcely one man was not hit, but their heavy sea gear stopped most of the splinters. Darkness probably saved them. Presently the raider turned off, began vainly hunting other victims with angry starshells. The valiant Jervis Bay had held him up for better than an hour...
...England, Cline saw no bombings, but plenty of preparation for Hitler's total war with trenches in London and barbed wire around Whitehall. After a six weeks' bicycle tour of England, Cline summed up his impressions: "No shrapnel in my hair, I was very disappointed as a matter of fact...
...Pile's new tactic. Instead of trying to hold enemy planes in the long fingers of searchlights and aiming at them, AA defenses set up a box barrage, all the guns firing at the same time into the darkness according to prescribed directions, forming a curtain of flying shrapnel. Splinters clattered like hail over 200 square miles of London...
...Piccadilly one afternoon strolled a civilian with a bomb he thought was a dud and was carrying as a present for his wife. Another Piccadilly stroller on a bright moonlit night wore a black jacket and a black Eden hat, carried an umbrella sedately over his head against the shrapnel shower...
...difficulty of getting news from place to place through damaged streets, under shrapnel showering from the sky, increased daily. A. P. installed a teletype to transmit dispatches to the cable office. The New York Times hired a veteran of the civil war in Spain, who shuttled imperturbably back & forth between the censor's office and the Times newsroom...