Word: shrapnel
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...pull up to the sidewalk and come to a screeching halt. the street, as far as the eye could see, is littered with debris--shards of glass, plastic window shades and pieces of twisted, gray shrapnel. All the buildings are pockmarked, scratched up. Dazed residents pour out of their houses, many still in their pajamas. The police work quickly to seal off the area of impact...
...good long-term policy, the immediate effect is likely to be more pain. "We are raising taxes in the teeth of a recession," Ratajczak noted. "I am not sure that many people would call that a useful idea." Added Fosler: "The budget agreement was very much like spraying shrapnel. It was sort of an AK-47, as opposed to a target rifle, in terms of its impact on the economy. Lots of sectors are going to be paying higher fees and costs for public services...
...occupants of the DC-9 were not so fortunate. Smoke and toxic fumes engulfed the cabin as flames flickered from the tail section. "The explosion came from the back of the plane," recalled passenger Fred Guyor. "Suddenly all this shrapnel came flying overhead, like a wave in the ocean." The survivors poured out of two exits, some breaking bones as they jumped when an evacuation chute failed to open...
Like their American counterparts, the patients at Ha Bac are both proud and reticent, resigned to their wounds, sometimes angry, often confused. Says Vu Trung Hien, 43, paralyzed since 1968 by a shrapnel wound in the back sustained in Phuoc Long province: "I did my duty. But after I was wounded, I wondered if the war was right or wrong. It cost so much. I still wonder." His roommate, Hoang Dinh Trung, 39, was similarly disabled in 1972 in Quang Tri province during a B-52 raid. "I was only 18 when I was mobilized," he says. "Looking back...
...eight passengers were hurt when someone fired a bullet through the front of a Greyhound bus Sunday night in south Jacksonville. The passengers were injured by fiberglass and shrapnel...