Word: shrapnel
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...cooked table meats with which they gorge themselves. That not only adds beastly pounds, but hurts the animal in other ways. A German shepherd, for instance, can exert so much pressure with his jaws (700 Ibs. per sq. in.) that he can easily splinter a cooked bone into tiny shrapnel-like pieces, some of which may perforate his intestines. It is far better, says A.A.H.A. President Warren Walker, to give dogs uncooked shank or knuckle bones, which are harder and less likely to fragment...
...error. It defies logic to believe that the long years of blood and napalm were merely a tragic series of mistakes dizzily succeeding each other. Men, powerful, arrogant and lying men, plucked Michael Mullen out of graduate school and put him on Hill 76. The piece of shrapnel which snuffed out his life as he slept close by his black friend from Detroit merely completed a cycle started by others, far away...
...Ricketts edged in close to play hoses on the Belknap, the destroyer suddenly found herself under fire. Three-inch shells were exploding in an ammunition locker on the Belknap, sending shrapnel whining across both decks. Twice the Ricketts had to back off before she finally was able to tie up to the Belknap. The Ricketts' crew had axes handy to cut the lines if the blazing cruiser seemed on the point of blowing...
...other weapons as well. Second-year Wide Receiver Lynn Swann has become one of the best pass catchers in the N.F.L., moving through his patterns with the speed of a college sprinter and the fakes of a ten-year veteran. Running Back Rocky Bleier, who was wounded by shrapnel while serving with the Army in Viet Nam, last year became a bruising blocking back for Harris, as well as a dangerous runner in his own right. Helping it all come together in offense is an experienced, hard-charging line that can move out almost any front four, except their...
...Pueblo, captured by the North Koreans. The greatest immediate danger came from American airmen who were bombing and strafing Cambodian gunboats in an effort to prevent the crew from being taken to the mainland. Unfortunately, the crew had been transferred to one of those boats. Some were wounded by shrapnel in the attacks; all of them were gassed...