Word: slivering
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...every 30 seconds. Colonel Crowe covered his chest wound with his poncho, covered his face with his helmet. A shell fragment tore through the poncho, pierced his chest in two more places. Five other fragments hit him in the left arm and shoulder, another in the right leg. A sliver tore off his thumbnail. A doctor who examined him said, "Not much chance...
...been four and a half years since the Wehrmacht swooped down on thunderstruck Norway in April 1940. Now, as the Nazi sun was sinking, the first little sliver of Norway was freed. Last week, far north in the Arctic, where Norway borders on Finland, the Russians pounded over the line in pursuit of the Germans, then took over the iron-ore port of Kirkenes, used by the Germans as a submarine and air base against the Allied northern sea route to Russia, and fought on some 15 miles westward...
...second time, as he lay near death in a cornfield, a passing chaplain murmured: "You're a Christian, aren't you? Well then, that's all right." The third time his right heel was almost torn off. Captain Holmes kept the wound open with a sliver of carrot. "I pinched W's heel a little the other day," wrote his jolly father, "and asked him into what vegetable I had turned his carrot. No answer. Why, into a Pa's nip! was my response." "War," growled his son, "is an organized bore...
Moscow suggested that Poland might in return take slices of Germany -presumably East Prussia, Upper Silesia and perhaps a sliver of Pomerania-territories to which Poland has dim historic rights and some strategic claim. Ethnologically and morally, Poland's claim to parts of Germany is no better than her claim to the eastern provinces; the single merit of such a gerrymander is that it would strengthen Russia and Poland, weaken Germany. There is much evidence that this idea was discussed at Teheran...
...Great Big Doorstep (adapted by Frances Goodrich & Albert Hackett from the novel by E. P. O'Donnell; produced by Herman Shumlin) is a folk comedy about a ramshackle family of Cajuns in lower Louisiana. Its pleasant sliver of plot concerns their fishing a handsome doorstep out of the Mississippi and then trying to get a house to go with...