Word: splinterized
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...other words shrapnel does not splinter. High explosive shell (termed simply H. E.) is what splinters on impact and causes splinters to fly in every direction. Present war tendencies favor H. E. shell over shrapnel, which is effective only against animals and personnel in the open. Shrapnel bursting charge blows the soft brass fuse from the head of the case and sprays the balls in an elliptical pattern over cone-shaped paths...
...Edith Gait Wilson, Eugene Luther Vidal. Tom Mix and many another noted U. S. citizen, Wiley Post was part Indian. Born 36 years ago on a Texas farm, he was raised in the Indian Territory oil fields, showed an early mechanical bent. One cay a red-hot steel splinter flew into his left eye, blinded it. Given $1,800 disability compensation, he promptly bought an old "Canuck," was soon barnstorming the Southwest. In Sweetwater, Tex. he met & married a pretty 17-year-old girl named Mae Laine who regarded him and his occupation with a wide-eyed enthusiasm not shared...
...This spring a wrecking crew pried the door off a car which had been overturned down an embankment and out stepped the driver with only a scratch on his cheek. But his mother was still inside, a splinter of wood from the top driven four inches into her brain as a result of son's taking a greasy curve a little too fast. No blood-no horribly twisted bones-just a gray-haired corpse still clutching her pocketbook in her lap as she had clutched it when she felt the car leave the road...
...cabled that he would come, great was the trepidation among the musicians. He was a musical god, they had heard, a despot, a devil. He used no score even at rehearsal but he could detect the tiniest flaws. Once in Milan he had smashed an offending violin and a splinter flew up, hit the player in one eye. Toscanini's fabulous memory gave him his first chance to conduct. He had studied to be a 'cellist at the Parma Conservatory. As a 'cellist he was playing in Rio de Janeiro when one night the regular conductor...
...Frank is proposing to his charming protege, bullets fly through the windows. Calmly he ships Joan to Miami so that he may dispose of his enemies without endangering her life. An exclusive hotel harbors Joan until she meets an insipid crooner who confesses he is a coward. If a splinter pierces the delicate epithelium on his finger, or if the sun darkens his pure white skin, he has conniptions. Emasculated as he appears on the surface, he faces death with remarkable nonchalance; he is there in the pinch. Maybe this characterization conveys something mystical and beautiful...