Catchword: toe-popper

Filed Under: English, Military

Part of Speech: n.

Quotation: Nearly a quarter-century of fighting has left Bagram littered with mines and unexploded ordnanc, from the tiny, flesh-shredding toe-popper land mines to rusting 500-pound Soviet bombs sticking out of the fields just beyond the runway.

Article or Document Title:
“Afghan air base heavily mined, hazardous”

Article, Document, Publication, Web Site:
The Capital

Publishing Location:
Annapolis, Md.

Dateline:
Bagram, Afghanistan

Date of Publication:
Mar. 23, 2003

Page Number:
A2

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