Word: shrapnel
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Lovely irony. Like life. An infantry corporal with nine pieces of shrapnel in his back carried on the fight for three years, pressing, retreating, always recovering and trudging wearily ahead, overcoming protesting generals (Air Force Ace Robinson Risner) and multimillionaires (Ross Perot) and politicians (Congressman Phil Crane) and pundits (Columnist Pat Buchanan) and bureaucrats (Secretary of the Interior James Watt...
Boys Life, shrapnel and Limbo Race...
...Sadat. The only shield afforded the President came when several plainclothesmen threw chairs over Sadat in a hopeless bid to save his life. Once the assassins had turned to flee toward the moving truck, the security guards gave chase, firing pistols and automatic rifles. Abu Ghazala, who had received shrapnel cuts in his face and right arm, sought to restore order amid the bloody chaos. "I told everybody to shut up," he said later, "and I ordered the military police to take charge." In the end, fire from the guards killed one of the attackers and wounded the other three...
...onto the screen. Finally an announcer told the viewers that the President had left the parade. By that time, the toll from the attack stood at five killed and 28 wounded, including four Americans. Sadat was in the hospital in a coma, blood gushing from his mouth. Bullets and shrapnel had ripped into the left side of his chest, his neck, knee and thigh. A later medical bulletin would reveal that death occurred at 2:40 p.m., two hours after the attack began, and that it was due to "violent nervous shock and internal bleeding in the chest cavity, where...
...long interior walkways-one four stories off the ground, the other two-had come ripping down amid a crowd of 1,500 dancers. As the debris cascaded to the floor, broken glass flew like shrapnel. Nor did the chaos end with the horrifying collapse. Water from broken pipes gushed out over the bodies and rubble, and the smell of escaping natural gas wafted through the vaulting half-acre hotel lobby, adding to the fears of fire and explosion. "People kept screaming names, all sorts of names, trying to find a friend or a wife or a son," recounted Kansas City...