Word: shrapnel
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...cocky any more. In a month Guantanamo has been transformed from a post guarded by a thin contingent of marines into a front-line fort manned by thousands of combat-ready troops facing the 10,000 militiamen Castro has outside. It is not a particularly pleasant duty. The shrapnel-proof vests the marines wear are hot; they call Cuba's tiny, biting insects "flying teeth," and they already have a marine nickname for the militiamen opposite-"Ruben the Cuban." The marines have no special animosity toward Castro's troops, but they are honed to such a fighting pitch...
...Over the past two months, 15 Ghanaians have been killed, more than 250 injured in a series of explosions, and terrorists have scrawled the words NKRUMAH ABDICATE OR MORE BOMBS on buildings in Accra. Nkrumah himself, while touring a border village in August, caught a shoulderful of shrapnel...
Through months of tension heightened by the Billie Sol Estes scandal and the defeat of his farm bill, Agriculture Secretary Orville Freeman has managed to keep surprisingly cool and collected. Last week he exploded with a loud political bang-and sent his shrapnel spraying over the Republican Party...
Sweet Clarity. Blizzards of shrapnel tear words out of sentences. A thought is splintered with the crack of a sniper's rifle...
...from ambulance driving to join the Italian infantry, was so badly wounded in a burst of shellfire that he felt life slip from his body, "like you'd pull a silk handkerchief out of a pocket by one corner," and then return. He emerged with 237 bits of shrapnel (by his own count), an aluminum kneecap, and two Italian decorations. It was at Fossalta that he picked up a fear of his own fear and the lifelong need to test his courage...