Word: barcelona
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...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...
Last week they crossed the Spanish border in a dusty motorcade of servants and attendants, showed up at the Ritz in Barcelona. No, they were not going to America. All the Duke and his Duchess wanted was to get on to Madrid, then Lisbon, then England. The Spanish did not take Edward's military career seriously enough to intern him as a belligerent...
Before the Visigoths, Rome held it. The Spanish took it from the Moors in 1462 and in 1704 Sir George Rooke, who felt he must have something to show for an unsuccessful expedition which he had led against Barcelona, wrested it from Spain...