Word: splinteringly
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...Cloward, unconsciousness is caused by microscopic changes in the brain cells; these changes occur when the brain is rapidly jogged out of place, at a speed of at least 23 feet per second. A heavy blow moves the head, displaces the brain, causes injuries over its entire surface. Shell splinter wounds, said the doctor, did not cause unconsciousness because the fragments traveled at such terrific speed that "the head was struck, perforated and penetrated before the brain as a whole had time to be set into motion...
...independent electorate-a full quarter of her voters. Many of them are small businessmen who did not like the last Popular Front administration. If enough of them should swing to Ibáñez, neither candidate may get a clear majority since there are one or two splinter party candidates in the field. If this happened, Chile's Congress would have to pick a President...
...wounded men had the same burning wish. Said one sailor: "Before this we didn't want to fight anybody. But now all we want is to get well enough to get our crack at those bastards." He did not yet know that a wound from a bomb splinter on his spine would never let him fight or walk again...
...troubles of her own, Bolivia has been a favorite field for Nazi intrigue. Since most of her food is imported, there is a chronic food shortage, a steadily rising cost of living. And, partly as a legacy from her dictator regimes, her political scene is a labyrinth of splinter parties...
...Dansk National-Socialistisk-Arbejderpartei (Danish Nazi party) under ridiculous Doctor Fritz Clausen has only 30,000 members, but there are nine other Danish-Nazi splinter groups. The Germans encourage this splintering to forward the disintegration of the country's political system. They hope to absorb Denmark whole...