Word: shrapnel
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...Minister is almost a parody of the ruling gentry class in Northern Ireland. His seat in the Stormont Parliament is virtually hereditary, having been held in succession by his grandmother and father. Educated at Eton, Chichester-Clark served in the Irish Guards and still carries in his left leg shrapnel fragments from the Anzio landing. He owns a 560-acre estate near Londonderry and enjoys gentlemanly pastimes like riding to hounds...
...During the Buddhist revolt in Danang in the spring of 1966, a 40-mm. grenade exploded near by, wounding him in eight places. He was riding a Coast Guard cutter a few months later when the ship was strafed by mistake by U.S. planes and he was riddled with shrapnel. Afterward, British-born Tim Page would tell his friends that the most frightening sight in the world is an F-4C Phantom screaming out of the sky, blinking death...
...bridge, Captain Kent L. Lee sounded general quarters and swung Enterprise into the wind to fan the fires astern. Below him on the deck, crewmen tried frantically to fight flames as exploding bombs sent shrapnel in all directions. There were many heroes. Chief Warrant Officer James Helton of San Diego was knocked down repeatedly, yet managed to get up and continue to fight the blaze. Airman Jack Benson of Portland, Ore., is credited with having helped 30 men escape the fire area...
Trapped by advancing flames, some crewmen were forced to jump six stories down to the water, despite the devouring suction created by Enterprise's 30-knot speed. Others held fast against flying shrapnel and searing heat. Airman George Conditt, 21, of Chicago tried to pull a Phantom away from the fire. "While I was hooking up," he says, "a big piece of shrapnel flew through the plane. Fuel started running out and caught fire. I jumped out of the tractor, and in a minute, both plane and tractor were blown to bits...
...bike sped away, a hand grenade in the bag exploded. The chauffeur died instantly in the car's flaming wreckage. The bodyguard, only shaken, managed to pull his minister from the flames. But Tri, 43, died half a day later, his stomach riddled by shrapnel, an eye gone, a leg broken and his head grievously battered...