Word: bethesda
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...TIME Correspondent James Shepley reported: "The field of this attack . . . was almost cleared of trees, sawed off by machine-gun fire and broken into shredded stumps by mortar bursts. When the attack ended I counted the bodies of 50 Japs in an area hardly bigger than my backyard at Bethesda, Md. Most of them were still in their foxholes where they had been shot or bayoneted by the Chinese...
...osmosis would not take place unless he took medicine that added acid to his stomach. So long as he took his medicines, he kept going. But on trips he often forgot. After the London and Moscow Conferences in 1941, he had to be rushed to the Naval Hospital in Bethesda. He returned from Teheran and Cairo worn down and sniffling, went to Florida to rest, wound up last week in Rochester...
...Naval Hospital in Bethesda, Md., they X-rayed Franklin Roosevelt's chest. It was a mild case of bronchitis, going into its third week. To reporters, the President pooh-poohed his illness, continued to smoke from his long cigaret holder, continued to cough softly but persistently. Last week...
Harry Hopkins, wretchedly ill, appeared before the grand jury next day, stayed ten minutes, returned directly to the Bethesda, Md. Naval Hospital. Briggs sent a wire to the Department of Justice announcing that he would reappear in three days. The wire was sent from New York City...
...know the five Crommelin brothers," said an official at the naval hospital in Bethesda, Md. "One or the other of them always seems to be getting shot up." Charles, the third of the Navy's team of officer-brothers, was at the hospital this week. He had come out of his last fight hit in more than 200 places...