Word: shrapnel
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...seamen, who were conducted to a survivors' camp below Murmansk, were housed in tin-roofed barracks, which resounded smartly to shrapnel all day long. When they first got there, they were inspected for injuries by Russian doctors, who administered vodka to the low in spirit. Haskell described the entire crew as low in spirit. They had been subjected to the horrors of one percent beverage in Iceland...
...changed the military surgeon's problems. Says the Red Army's Chief Surgeon Nikolai N. Burdenko: "The percentage of bullet wounds is comparatively small; most casualties are now due to bombing, mortar fire and grenades." In World War I, 50% of wounds were caused by shrapnel (or shell fragments); today 95% belong to this category (counting each wound separately-one man often receives several wounds at the same time). Next to wounds of the arms and legs, the largest group of major wounds involves the skull and brain...
...Because bandages are eliminated, wounds can be inspected at any time. In several Mare Island cases bullet and shrapnel wounds were discovered in burned areas which would have been overlooked had they been bandaged. ^ Wax treatment does not produce the leathery crust which forms on burns treated with tannic acid and dyes. These crusts often trap purulent materials and have to be removed painfully...
...must be frightful to have been wounded twice, to have fought for 15 months, and now to make a fifth trip to a flaming city. In 15 minutes she will pass through burning buildings, and somewhere under the rain of shrapnel and bombs will pick up a wounded man and bring him back to the ferryboat. Then she will make her sixth trip...
Back from the dead in the great romantic tradition last week came China's glamorous black-banged Butterfly Wu, the fragile cinemactress but durable adventuress, who was supposedly killed by flying shrapnel in the siege of Hong Kong last January. Wu-wooers were relieved: they had feared that a fabulously Asiatic career had ended. The Butterfly's beauty and talent had moved her on & up 1) from the studio of a maker of obscene postcards, 2) to the arms of Henry Pu-yi, stooge ruler of Manchukuo, 3) to the arms of Marshal Chang Hsüeh-liang...