Word: shrapnel
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...queer feeling one gets when huddled in a doorway while shrapnel is bursting overhead...
...figure across the street throw something," John McPhee, Scottish inspector of Shanghai police, related afterward. "I watched a blur coming toward me. The object hit the ground and rolled between my feet. I pushed a Japanese civilian away and turned around just as the object exploded. A piece of shrapnel cut through my coat and hit my police card. I'm pretty lucky. I thought I was a goner...
...shell, bursting by accident at the intersection of Peking and Szechuan Roads killed one Chinese, tore a limb from each of four. Together one bomb and one shell killed a total of 80 Chinese and on the river splinters of shrapnel fell like rain on the decks of Japanese, U. S. and other warships. Star shells shrieked up as the night deepened, searchlights stabbed and crisscrossed the blackness, feeling for bombers, and a young U. S. officer who had been out risking his neck to see what the bloody clinches of War are like, came back with the news...
...Shrapnel Swing." In San Francisco arrived last week Shanghai's most exuberant refugee, Miss Therese Rudolph, who says she went unscathed through the first Japanese bombing of the International Settlement (TIME, Aug. 23), has now translated the emotions she experienced into a hot-cha-cha routine, the "Shrapnel Swing" (see cut). In Shanghai last week the 2,527th case of cholera was certified in the International Settlement alone, with 563 victims of cholera dead and doctors vaccinating night and day in efforts to head off an epidemic of smallpox. Conditions were so appalling that Japanese insisted on sterilizing...
WHILST TWO GREAT PEOPLES FLY AT EACH OTHER'S THROATS. . . . Seven thousand miles away Chinamen are dying. Seven thousand miles away Japs are lying on hospital cots-their broken bodies wracked with torture from shrapnel fragments and machine gun lead...