Word: splinters
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Tangier last fortnight was no friendly omen. The pounding which Franco's guns could give warships inside Gibraltar's moles and booms would certainly be disastrous and perhaps, over a period of weeks, big shells could smash away the Rock's friable limestone-of which every splinter becomes a missile when a shell explodes-to expose the defenders' guns to ultimate destruction. If that should happen, Benito Mussolini would escape his Mediterranean cage...
...general whose troops break through the ring of old forts and gain access to the boulevards has the same advantages that Haussmann's revolt-breakers were supposed to enjoy. And the old masonry buildings become bomb traps since the limestone of which they are constructed shatters easily, each splinter becoming itself a missile...