Word: shrapnel
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...BEACH If there's anything worse than a beach, it's a French beach. In Ryan, Spielberg's American soldiers are slaughtered as they de-boat on D-day in a rain of enemy fire. In Pauline a la plage, Eric Rohmer's protagonist probably wishes for shrapnel to off her, if only to spare her the pointless banter of her tacky, divorce cousin...
...rifle--given the catchy Army name of "objective individual combat weapon"--is the 20-mm air-burst round fired by its top barrel. A built-in laser range finder tells the round where in flight to explode, giving it the ability to spray lethal shrapnel in all directions, like a hand grenade, as much as half a mile from the shooter. That translates into a gun that can kill enemy soldiers hidden behind walls or in foxholes...
...less compelling, nor less vile. Images from the Sudan and from Somalia tell the story of the East African famine during the last decade. Photographs from Bosnia, Kosovo and Chechnya are striking for their portrayal of the agony of war-men on makeshift operating tables, blinded by shrapnel and bleeding from torn limbs; civilians dying in the snow; the living inconsolably mourning the dead; bloody handprints smeared on walls...
...years he carried German shrapnel in his leg and back," Capuano said. "For the entire time, he told me not one thing that happened to him in WWII, not one...I wish I had known earlier...
Born in 1952, toward the end of the cruel Stalin years, to a lower-class family, Putin was the child of a religious mother who survived the siege of Leningrad and a faithful Communist Party father invalided out of the army with multiple shrapnel wounds. He was a late child, born when his mother was 41 years old. His two brothers died young, one shortly after birth, the other of diphtheria during World War II. Although Vladimir Sr. was party secretary at the train-car factory where he worked, Volodya's mother had him secretly baptized in the Russian Orthodox...