Word: arming
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...container for such solutions, to be administered by venoclysis, is now a customary part of operating room equipment. If an operation is going to cause great loss of blood or dangerously sap a debilitated patient's vitality, a venoclysis needle is pushed into a big vein in his arm or leg, is connected by rubber tubing to the container of salt or sugar solution...
...they found a flunkey struggling up to the tribune with a heavy pedestal, its top padded with red plush. A few minutes later Pierre Etienne Flandin walked slowly into the room, his face pale, his huge frame much thinner than before his automobile accident last month. His broken left arm in a plaster cast was supported by a sort of wicker basket which, when he reached the rostrum, he rested on the plush pedestal. The entire Chamber, including the Communist Deputies, rose and cheered not Flandin the Premier but Flandin the Frenchman who bravely defied physical pain...
...Hard-boiled reporters felt that hulking Premier Flandin had made several tactical errors in his last appeal to the Deputies. His entire speech had been dramatic and emotional, from the pedestal to prop his broken arm to the hints of dire plotting on the part of U. S. correspondents-hints that no other French official could substantiate. And sympathy is an emotion that French Deputies find hard to sustain for more than an hour. Flandin had referred directly to his physical handicap, to the secret rage of his opponents, had stung their vanity by insisting that he alone was capable...
...went to the races at Montevideo's Hippodrome. The jockey club president invited them upstairs to the buffet for a glass of Yerba Maté. At the head of the stairs they were met by onetime Nationalist Deputy Bernardo Garcia. He pulled out a gun. Somebody jostled his arm. A shot plunked into President Terra's shoulder. The crowd knocked down visiting President Vargas; his daughter fainted; an officer slashed the assassin over the head with a sabre. President Terra, followed by his guests, walked pleasantly out to his car, shouted, "They failed to kill me. Long live...
...takes no patronage from anybody. At 14 he finished St. Louis' Benton Grade School, ran away to California, ran right back to his housepainter father whom he has since painted, with a gin bottle and from the rear to hide the fact that he had but one arm. Father Jones said: "The worst thing about that whole business was sitting there all that time beside the empty bottle...