Word: shrapnel
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...Once only two guns of the battery had firing data from the new electrical automatic range-finding apparatus. Spectators at the show-the 11th annual meeting of the Army Ordnance Association-later learned that the total of 200 rounds fired had made only a score of shrapnel tears in the red cloth finger. Previously they had seen two four-gun, multiple-mounted .50 calibre Browning machine guns blow forth eight sulphur-colored blossoms, fling white-hot missiles at a similar aerial target to score 36 direct hits...
Author Renn begins with the 1914 advance through Belgium. "We" cross rivers, take towns, shoot rifles. Deep in France, shells displace bullets and flying shrapnel forces "us" to dig into the earth. Bang! rat-a-tat! whack! bang! "My" friend crawls under sheet. Showers of sparks on the ground, then Crash!?a dark brown cloud over the front line. There is a curious noise close by. Something moves under the sheet. A jagged hole in it appears. Boo-oom!?pat-pat-pat! The ground shakes. Gas. Shrieks. Four years of this. Escape: death, a wound, a breakdown, intoxication...
...partner of Capt. Hermann Koehl and Major James E. Fitzmaurice (TIME, April 23); after a stomach operation; in Berlin. His career was brilliant, despite great physical odds. From boyhood his heart was weak; his right, monocled eye was nearly sightless. In the War both his legs were lacerated by shrapnel. He contracted a stomach malady which he knew to be incurable. But he fought bravely, wrote plays and poetry. As a vice consul in Holland he received the fleeing Kaiser. The Crown Prince was his crony. Never married, he often said his three wives were "the pen, politics and aviation...
...Included in her [the Lusitania's] cargo was a small consignment of rifle ammunition and shrapnel shells weighing about 173 tons...
Arizona is a mule. He belongs to the Army. His neck was wounded by shrapnel in the Argonne. All three "A's" were condensed as one on a clean new blanket which the 30th Infantry, now stationed at the Presidio in San Francisco, last week draped upon Arizona and then saluted. While the men marched by him, Arizona, little knowing that he had committed "valor under fire," but doubtless remembering many a whack on the behind in the days when he dragged a field gun, rolled a mulish eye at Brigadier-General Frank C. Bolles and mulishly munched carrots...