Word: bitten
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After the Japs had isolated the central Philippines in 1942, hard-bitten Philippine Scouts, Philippine Army men and U.S. Army stragglers had kept up the fight. To get ammunition, they had dived to retrieve thousands of rounds in a sunken Jap ship and some had burst their eardrums in the job. Fifteen out of 16 rounds had misfired, but even soaked ammunition was better than no ammunition...
When a hand is "bitten" (usually by an accidental blow against teeth, rarely by actual biting), treatment is to cut the wound wide open, remove all tissue injured by the poisonous teeth, bandage with splints or a cast so the hand cannot move. To impress laymen and doctors with the necessity for quick treatment, Dr. Hudson gave some facts: 1) of 14 hand bites treated at Massachusetts General Hospital, five of the seven treated late lost fingers or parts of them; 2) of 14 cases seen by Dr. Hudson himself, none of the eight treated early had amputations, three...
...Saipan, a correspondent of the Honolulu Advertiser, visiting the scene of the great victory which cost 16,000 American casualties, found servicemen swearing bitterly at the very idea of a V-day celebration in the U.S. Asked one hard-bitten marine: "Haven't they heard about the Japs...
...Navy paid honor last week to one of its hard bitten heroes of the long Pacific...
...away-in August 1902, when he was 16-with a flea-bitten stock company. They gave him his first part: a 70-year-old Methodist minister in a melodrama called Jim Bludsoe...