Word: shrapnel
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With thunderous roar upon roar a series of munitions blasts rocked lower New York City almost to its foundations, shattered thousands of windows, peppered Governor's Island and Jersey City with shrapnel fragments, killed four men, destroyed $45.000.000 worth of property...
...President Washington Luis sat officers, too, lost their heads. They saw the Hamburg-South American liner Baden sail out of Rio bound for Buenos Aires, her decks teeming with Spanish emigrants. To stop her they fired three blank signal shots. The Baden steamed on. The fourth shot was a shrapnel shell. Bursting on deck it killed 23 Spanish emigrants, four German sailors, wounded forty others...
...refused to start, two young mechanics applied a compressed-air booster* to "kick over" the sluggish pistons. Instantly the compressed-air tank and the engine burst, the explosion throwing the crew and their one passenger 40 ft. to the ground, wrecking the fore part of the gondola, scattering a shrapnel of splinters. Flames from the carburetor shot upward but burned out without igniting the hydrogen-filled...
...Navy, stanchly Uriburuist, fired a few shots up from the harbor for reasons obscure. Back came shrapnel from an equally Uriburuist artillery unit. One shell, bursting neatly on the deck of the destroyer Mendoza, obliterated an officer, silenced the Navy...
...British from the caves where he had been hiding north of the Khyber, the Haji's son and lieutenant, Badshah Gul, warned him that war was impossible until the tribesmen had finished their Spring harvest. Crops were poor. Last week came the attack. Riddled by machine guns, shrapnel, blasted by tons of aerial bombs, the tribes men swept...