Word: barcelona
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Negrin, now a student at M. I. T., spent several months in Barcelona while that city was under siege, escaping shortly before it fell. During that period, he remarked, he became acquainted with a wide variety of organizations which constituted Spain's Popular Front...
...British have a weakness for lost causes like that of Quiberon. There have been others-Barcelona in 1705, Toulon in 1793, Norway in 1940. But the worst of them all, because the job looked so easy and the repercussions of failure were so drastic, was last week's fiasco at Dakar...
...without arms, men without legs, men with hollow, tubercular chests walk the streets of Madrid, Burgos, Barcelona. So do hollow-eyed women in mourning and women who look out of blank, uncomprehending eyes. Symbolic of Spain's people is the bronze statue of King Carlos in Toledo, which lies against its base with legs amputated by a shell, one arm gone and a gash from a shell fragment in its navel. Franco has decreed that the Alcazar be left unrestored, as a monument to "the fury of the Rojos...
...Nazis only a few jumps behind, hard-pressed, sweating surgeons had to have some new and faster technique of treating wounds. Fortunately, most of them had read last winter the revolutionary work on wound surgery written after the small-scale war in Spain by brilliant Dr. Josep Trueta of Barcelona, now in England (TIME, Jan. 15). In treating 1,073 projectile fractures, Surgeon Trueta obtained wholly satisfactory results in 976 cases and there were only six deaths. His method: instead of lengthy and painstaking work in old-fashioned suturing and splinting (sewing up wounds and applying strips of wood...
...human members amputated. The French soon learned, however, to let plastered Spanish wounded alone, observed that, while the odor for a time became almost unbearable, the end result was nearly always satisfactory. Last week the British Lancet said nothing about a heroic stench, said flatly that results of the Barcelona method have been so good in Flanders that from now on suturing applied on the battlefield must be considered "almost criminal...