 "Albany Times Union (Albany, NY)")
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Gerard's drive stronger than his achy bones.(Sports)
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Byline: PETE DOUGHERTY Staff Writer
TROY - Golf doesn't seem like a physical game until the body parts start breaking down. Then try to generate enough swing speed to try to hit 270-yard drives.
Peter Gerard, now in his mid-40s, has felt the pain. He has two aching knees that will undergo surgery this winter, and his shoulders hurt, too. In his effort to relieve the pain, he also lost his game.
A three-time Northeastern New York PGA Player of the Year, Gerard has chosen to ignore the pain the past six weeks, and the results have improved. Gerard ...
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Our vehicle was blown in half, I got shrapnel wounds to my face ; Lesley-Anne Henry talks to two of the Royal Irish Regiment soldiers injured in Helmand Province, Afghanistan, this week
Newspaper article from: Belfast Telegraph
; ...which went over an IED. The vehicle was blown in half. I got shrapnel wounds to my leg and face. One of the other lads got flown...others outside - there were only two in the vehicle. "I got a shrapnel wound in the arm and injured my back - I just got out of hospital...
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The unsettling legacy of General Shrapnel
Magazine article from: Mother Jones
; ...transitory had been the empire Shrapnel served. Shrapnel's unremarkable, slightly...was a clothier, like many Shrapnels before him in the southwestern English county of Wiltshire. Henry was born in 1761, and although...According to one account, Shrapnel got the idea for his invention...
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Scarred Beneath the Skin; Veterans Carry the Wounds of War in the Form of Shrapnel
Newspaper article from: The Washington Post
; ...dislodged from his throat. "Shrapnel," the Army specialist told...of metal and debris known as shrapnel that actually cause the wounds...whose bodies are riddled with shrapnel. Many carry around the fragments...more than 200 years, since Henry Shrapnel, a British artillery...
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Hurt soldiers carry painful reminders; Many troops wounded in Iraq carry shrapnel ``souvenirs'' for years.(Main)
Newspaper article from: Albany Times Union (Albany, NY)
; ...dislodged from his throat. "Shrapnel," the Army specialist told...of metal and debris known as shrapnel that actually cause the wounds...whose bodies are riddled with shrapnel. Many carry around the fragments...more than 200 years, since Henry Shrapnel, a British artillery...
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Catching flak on `shrapnel'
Newspaper article from: Chicago Sun-Times
; ...of words, I had something to say about "shrapnel." A letter had come from retired Army Gen...his complaint along. It appears that the shrapnel shell was invented by British Gen. Henry Shrapnel in 1803 (I had the date wrong) and first...
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 "Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN)")
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male room; The original `Guy' died for our syntax; A failed terrorist from 400 years ago gave us the word "guy," which has a happier meaning than the eponyms we got from Mr. Boycott, Lynch and Shrapnel.(SIGNATURE)
Newspaper article from: Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN)
; ...nicotine now refers to the addictive alkaloid substance in the plant. Word: Shrapnel. From: Henry Shrapnel (1761-1842). Derivation: A British officer, Shrapnel invented what he called "spherical case" ammunition: a hollow cannon ball...
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 "The Daily Mail (London, England)")
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A tale to take with a pinch of snuff; ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS,COFFEE BREAK:2.(Column)
Newspaper article from: The Daily Mail (London, England)
; ...exploding shells and bombs known as shrapnel? THIS term is technically incorrect...be called fragments. General Henry Shrapnel (1761-1842) invented...has been placed on the General Henry pub, formerly The Foresters...Littlehampton, saying: `General Henry Shrapnel (1761-1842), ...
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Arcane fields of error
Newspaper article from: Chicago Sun-Times
; ...irritated by misuse of the word "shrapnel." Day after day he hears or reads about someone injured by "shrapnel." He says it just isn't so...a British Army officer, Col. Henry Shrapnel, invented a new artillery shell...
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SPLASH BEATS CRASH ON COVERS
Newspaper article from: The Boston Globe
; ...lines being severed by "shrapnel." Time, I think rightly...said the engine threw "shrapnel-like" pieces of metal through the lines. Shrapnel, properly, is always the...device, and is named after Henry Shrapnel, an officer of...
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The lead-meisters
Magazine article from: The Village Voice
; ...September/October issue of Mother Jones: "Before shrapnel was shrapnel, it was a man. The murderously efficient exploding...reference to its inventor, British artillery officer Henry Shrapnel. Like Colt, Luger, and Kalashnikov, the name...
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