Word: splinters
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Over 100 had been hit by flying glass. Some had as many as 100 pieces of glass in them-"a problem which has not yet acquired a satisfactory solution." The glass did not usually penetrate very deep, but many cuts contained dirt as well as glass, and removing every splinter was almost impossible. Worst glass injuries were to eyeballs. "A large proportion were received when looking out of windows-a modern version of curiosity killing...
...fatso?" Welles came out of the wings at NBC's Manhattan studios, and McCarthy chirped: "Why don't you release a blimp for active service?" Once before, Welles had taken even worse abuse from his radio host. That time the actor had asked "the Magnificent Splinter" what he thought of the weighty Welles efforts on the air. Said McCarthy: "At first I thought something had died in my radio...
...Liberal Party splinter, controlled by Labor Leader David Dubinsky, and attracting such independent Republicans as Russell Davenport, such New Dealers as Leon Henderson, polled 319,085 votes (nearly all in New York City) for Roosevelt. Hillman's A.L.P. polled 483,371. These two totals, added to the Democrats' 2,461,771, were enough to beat Tom Dewey's 2,952,867 straight G.O.P. vote in crucial New York State...
Decision: Retreat. The troop commander put off the first retirement for two more hours. His tired old-young face, lean as a shell splinter, mirrored his doubt, his brief hope that he could hold, and finally his resolve to save what he had left for another day. He made that decision only after an infantryman from the fragile line near the town burst into the C.P. His face was bleeding slightly, his eyes were glazed. He could hardly talk until the troop medico had patched and soothed him. Then he said, still stammering, that German tanks had broken into...
Nutcrackers I and II. In the Marianas Admiral Chester W. Nimitz, Commander of Pacific Ocean Areas, is forging a close-in nutcracker to splinter the hard shell of Jap defenses. While his Fifth Fleet under Admiral Raymond A. Spruance (only "a portion" of his Pacific force, as Nimitz thoughtfully pointed out) battered a way toward Japan from the south, another "portion" swept down the northerly Kuril Island chain last week and bombarded Matsuwa, 1,075 miles from Tokyo...