Word: shrapnel
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Even at 41, Baltimore Manager Hank Bauer is the sort of man who gives people pause. He stands 6 ft., weighs 190 Ibs., has a face like a clenched fist and a voice that starts out tenderly-like an avalanche. He carries shrapnel scars, two Bronze Stars, and a card in the steam fitters' union, has done his share of knocking around-places like Guadalcanal, New Georgia, Guam, Okinawa. And when he played rightfield for the Yankees from 1949 to 1959, his specialty was knocking down double-play-minded second basemen...
...lead over the Advisory Group Support Branch in their night game at Pershing Field, the U.S. military's softball diamond outside Saigon. In the stands, 150 partisan American fans-soldiers, sailors, embassy civilians, wives and children-booed and cheered. Suddenly, two explosions under the stands sent shrapnel slicing through the planking, shearing the leg off a G.I., hurling jagged splinters like missiles into the crowd. Amid the wreckage, two soldiers lay dying, 23 other Americans dazed and injured...
...three volumes of poetry and various phantasmagoric novels with scabrous puns and salacious posturings. But when the war began, he enlisted in the army-which he did not have to do as a foreigner-and proved a tough and durable soldier until he was hit in the head by shrapnel. He won a measure of respectability, French citizenship and the Croix de Guerre...
...largely by professional outside agitators." With that, he led the visitors off to a private lunch at Birmingham's exclusively white sanctuary, "The Club." Then early next morning, two bombs exploded in a Negro district; there were no injuries, though several houses and cars were damaged by flying shrapnel. Through the rest of the week, Blaik and Royall spent their time listening to the problems of first the whites and then the Negroes. Said Dr. Lucius Pitts, president of the all-Negro Miles College: "It appears to me that this group is going to have rough sailing...
...Shrapnel & Atrocities. Perhaps most remarkable about the Boer War was its length: for nearly three years the might of the British Empire was fought off by a sprinkling of fiercely independent Dutch settlers in the interior of South Africa. The conflict saw history's last cavalry charge with lance and saber, and the first wide-scale use of shrapnel, barbed wire, trenches, machine guns. Resembling the American Civil War in fact as well as in fiction-formula, the Boer War found the most daring soldiers and the most skillful generals on the losing side, while the victors...