Word: shrapnel
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...scathing sun, and shrapnel of the hail...
...swollen population of 1,500,000, cowered and shuddered beneath the impact of live bombs. So sudden was this first attack that there was no time to sound air-raid warnings, and before thousands of pedestrians and motorists on the streets could be herded indoors, the skies were raining shrapnel. Over 125 were killed, including 70 children playing in the grounds of a schoolhouse. Three Bombs fell on the Plaza del Callao, Madrid press district. To add to the Radical Government's misery, batches of terrified Red Militiamen promptly crossed the lines to join the White Army...
...hospitalized behind the lines after the Argonne offensive with a hole in his neck and a piece of shrapnel in his lung, Sergeant DeWitt Wallace of the 35th U. S.. Infantry perfected his plans for a magazine of condensed reprints culled from all the publications on the market. The tremendous success of this notion of a wounded soldier in 1918 was made manifest this week by a unique and thoroughgoing account of Reader's Digest published in FORTUNE...
Still busy according to latest despatches was the Ambassador of the Republic of Chile, Dean of the Diplomatic Corps. Telegraphed he to the Council of the League of Nations in Geneva: "The attack which is being carried out at this moment with dynamite, shrapnel and gasoline gives an infernal aspect to this operation of war. An armistice of 24 hours may mean the lives of the women and children. I beg His Excellency the Spanish Foreign Minister to have these women and children who in the Alcázar are locked on the brink of Death placed in the care...
...collector from taking away his stock. Shots are fired, mysterious figures slink through the fog, the fascists camp on the farm to protect it from the police. During this imbroglio, Mary's high-minded lover is pushed off a wagon by a policeman. This dislodges two pieces of shrapnel left in his brain since the War, with the result that he goes blind. Mary thereupon regrets her previous highmindedness, offers herself to her lover, but his regard for her husband has deepened with his loss of sight, and it is his turn to do the rejecting. Mary, who expected...