Word: shrapnel
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...likely to slow down any time soon. In the past twelve years, the Soviets have conducted at least 17 tests of their ASAT system to disable or destroy enemy satellites. In these experiments, a so-called killer satellite approaches its target and explodes, sending out a spray of deadly shrapnel. To match this threat, the U.S. is now working on its own antisatellite system of an even more advanced design, to be launched from a high-flying aircraft that could not be easily targeted by enemy missiles like the Soviets' ground platforms...
...thing. The planes will come in about 90 minutes." By dawn the artillery exchanges had become so fierce that it was dangerous for us to stay in so exposed a position at the Hotel Alexandre. Palestinian mortars and 130-mm shells exploded near by, sending shards of steel shrapnel onto the hotel roof...
...windows, its main damage shows in a lateral gap high on a wall, the shape of a huge expressionless mouth. When the twelve bombs hit the drab, gray structure, six people were killed and 20 injured. Two female patients sitting in the lounge were sliced to pieces by the shrapnel. It could have been worse. A rocket that hit the children's ward got entangled in a blanket and miraculously never went...
...Maqassed Hospital is a real hospital. Two hundred have died there since the bombing began. Twelve-year-old Houda had her stomach slit open by shrapnel, but she feels well now and smiles to show it. She does not know what this war is about. Mahmoud, also 12, had his forehead burned by a phosphorous bomb. His black hair sticks up in points. He says that God will take revenge...
...long-empty Triumph Hotel was converted into a P.L.O. hospital. Most of the patients were from the three Palestinian camps near Beirut airport that had been bombed by Israeli jets. In one of the dingy rooms on the fourth floor lay Autra Waehe'h, 43, who had deep shrapnel wounds in her right side. An Israeli bomb had crashed into the house next to hers at Bourjel-Barajneh refugee camp. The blast knocked out a wall of Mrs. Waehe'h's house, killing her 23-year-old daughter and seriously injuring her 16-year-old son. Waehe...