1.   His rib cage was missing on one side where a large piece of shell casing stuck out from under his breastbone.

2.   Police found at least a dozen spent shell casings around the van.

3.   The looms had been replaced with lathes, which responded to urgent and sometimes panic requests to anything from shell casings to aircraft, gun or radio parts.

4.   Recoil punched hard and ejected shell casings angrily around the nose compartment, some clattered into the rear of the instrument panel and blew its circuits.

5.   An ammunition company in Miami, for example, distributes a calendar that features, among other things, a nude model draped over a sea of shell casings.

6.   And a dozen fresh shell casings lie a few feet from the corpses.

7.   And a dozen fresh shell casings lie a few feet from the bodies.

8.   And the children arrive every day because not even the sound of a bullet or the sight of fractured glass or spent shell casings have the power of ideas.

9.   Apparently, the Office of the Special Counsel wants to determine whether the shell casings came from bullets fired by the ATF or the FBI.

10.   Artillery flashes lit the hills south of Erbil, and spent shell casings fell like coins from a slot machine.