Word: unhurt
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...admiral had his problems, too. To the south the other arm of the pincers (through Surigao Strait) had been broken. Between him and escape in that direction lay Kinkaid's main force, unhurt and full of fight. And toward him from the north steamed Halsey with the most powerful force in the Pacific; Halsey's first planes were already thundering toward Leyte Gulf. The Jap admiral made his own quick decision: he turned and fled into San Bernardino Strait...
...disabled Junkers lost altitude, skidded across the field on its belly and groundlooped. U.S. ground crewmen helped the grinning refugee, unhurt, from the cockpit. U.S. authorities withheld his name, placed him under technical arrest. By his standards, this was freedom...
...choking with the reek of cordite and grit and the fine dry dust of rotten old woodwork. My eyes and nose were full of dirt. I was shivering from panic and excitement, but at the same time experiencing an extraordinary sensation of being completely all right and unhurt, no matter what horrible thing had happened...
...London a robomb hit a house in which an old 'man was taking a bath. Nothing was left but debris, so there did not seem to be much use searching for the body. But rescue squads dug in, presently dug out the old man, dazed but otherwise unhurt, and still sitting in the bathtub. Said he: "I don't know how it happened. I just pulled out the plug and the house blew...
...Allied advance toward Calais goaded the Germans to fire last stinging salvos from their big cross-Channel guns. Some 100 big shells crashed down on the Dover strip ("Hell's Corner") in the space of four hours.* One deaf old lady of 82 slept on, unhurt, while her home was wrecked. When fire wardens awoke her amid the ruins, she looked around, said: "What a mess...