Word: shrapnel
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...plane veered critically and crashed into a string of other aircraft packed close together on the carrier's flight deck. Within seconds, the three Marine officers flying the Prowler died; so did eleven of the ship's crew, burned by flaming jet fuel or struck by flying shrapnel. Forty-eight more sailors were injured, some seriously...
...seat is hard. I have been sitting without moving in this very hard seat because I am too scared to move, and I am hoping all the shrapnel will fall around...
...ripping open the package, he awkwardly pulled the book it contained out, away from his body. That move probably saved his life. Inside the hollowed-out copy of Sloan Wilson's novel Ice Brothers was a spring-activated pipe bomb filled with explosive black powder and pieces of shrapnel. Because the bomb exploded a few feet away, Wood survived, though suffering heavy lacerations on his legs and chest...
...other secret papers. Whether the documents revealed the identity of some U.S. agents or collaborators in Tehran is not known but seems improbable. The mission leaders suggested that after one helicopter collided with a parked C-130 at the landing strip and both erupted into flames, the resulting shrapnel and flying debris from exploding ammunition threatened to damage four other C-130s and strand the entire party. When asked about this last week, Colonel Charlie Beckwith, who was in charge of the 90-man assault force, said tersely: "That wasn't my job. I can't talk...
...cases and bits and pieces of transport vehicles and aircraft." After the war, at 26, Wilson was sent on a Commonwealth tour to make a survey of people blinded during the conflict. Everywhere he encountered the sightless. But it soon became evident that malnutrition and disease, not bullets and shrapnel, had cost most of them their vision. A few years later, traveling to Nakong in northern Ghana, Wilson and his new wife Jean discovered villagers so accustomed to blindness that they found it difficult to believe the rest of the world could see. Recalls Wilson: "A blind farmer taught...