Word: shrapnel
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...will not be playing her mod-witch part from Bugaloos, a fall TV show, but will serve as a surgical nurse with the Green Berets. The Nightingale role is hardly a new one for Colonel Raye, who has been a sometime practicing nurse ever since 1936. Twice hit by shrapnel during the Viet Nam years, she bravely classifies her wounds as "not serious. Once in the foot, once in the ribs. I've had worse hangovers...
...hardly miss. One shell exploded above the driver's seat; he was killed instantly but clung grotesquely to the wheel as the bus swayed another 60 yards down the road. The other shells hit the body of the vehicle, tearing out the floor and spraying the occupants with shrapnel. Bodies, bookbags and lunch boxes were strewn around the wreckage. Two teachers and seven children died instantly: another student and teacher died later, and the remaining 20 aboard the bus were all wounded. Nor did the toll end there. Shortly afterward, five parents speeding to see their children...
...neighbor's old clothes, the pair disappeared before police came. At the end of last week, they were still missing. ∙ In the ruins, police found 60 sticks of dynamite, 30 blasting caps and four dynamite-packed pipes wrapped with heavy nails that could act as flesh-shredding shrapnel. They also found the body of Theodore Gold, 23, and the unidentified remains of two other persons. A credit card belonging to Kathy Boudin, 26, who may have been the person with Cathlyn, also turned up in the debris. Gold and the girls were all members of the violent Weatherman...
...misses and one direct hit that blew a hole in a wall, just a few yards from the observers' living quarters. When firing began again, Plane and a Chilean colonel moved to a window to take a look-just in time for Plane to catch a piece of shrapnel in the neck above his armored vest. He died instantly...
...sniper's bullet fractures a Marine's leg, yet he continues carrying a wounded squad mate on a stretcher for a mile to the evacuation area. Hot shrapnel severs the leg muscles of another Marine so badly that doctors later say that he should have been unable to walk, yet he runs more than 200 yards to a medical-aid station. A man with a smashed knee crawls 40 yards to a mortar position, props himself on his elbows, and helps load shells for five hours before reporting his wound...