Word: bedsheet
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...demonstrators must have wrenched the hundreds of people who were serious about hearing the candidate. The demonstrators had come early and taken the seats immediately surrounding the Bandstand, and that inner ring looked like the floor of the Democratic Convention, a sea of signs. The biggest was a bedsheet ten feet square that had been hoisted aloft right opposite the candidate's podium and read George Wallace Your Friendly Fascist...
...four-hour journey took eight hours. In one small town along the tracks, Colonia, family held up a bedsheet with the words "We'll miss you Bobby" scratched upon it. In Menuchen, an elderly Negre fell on his knees touching the ground with his forehead and stretched out his arms, hat in hand, toward the train. Everywhere, men and women pressed their fists to their mouths, their faces hard with grief...
...cause of the trouble, explains Britain's Surgeon John Charnley, is either pressure that shuts off blood flow, or moist skin sticking to the bedsheet, which in turn sticks to the waterproof sheet beneath so that no moisture can escape. Dr. Charnley thought of trying a spongy sort of sheet made of nylon and polyvinyl chloride. But U.S. orthopedists had beaten him to the idea, with animal skins. Milwaukee's Dr. Frederick G. Gaenslen, copying an idea used by his orthopedist-father, uses close-cropped sheepskin...