Word: boned
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...stood on a hill watching troops move forward, a shell exploded close by. A four-inch fragment tore across his left shoulder and smashed the tip of his collar bone. A splinter about an inch and a half long pierced his helmet and came to rest against the base of his skull. The General walked to a jeep, rode three hours to a hospital, was operated on, said: "I'll be back there soon. I'm looking for my clothes now. The shoulder doesn't hurt any. After another good night's sleep...
Restored to love and responsibility, the prince must return to his rose. He proposes to take Saint-Exupéry's sketch of the sheep (which will grow into flesh and bone). But sheep eat bushes-and the little prince demands a sketch of a muzzle...
From its faults as much as from its virtues, especially by its bone-crushing sincerity, the book becomes large and impressive. The watchful, sympathetic reader will find that Freeman has done something both courageous and important. More often accidentally than not, Never Call Retreat is an almost endlessly revealing record of the typical liberal-to-leftist mind and spirit, with all its hopes, doubts and occupational diseases as limpid as amber...
...White. Wound treatment was kept simple: gunshot wounds had their edges cut away, were not sewed up; wounds involving bone were usually put in plaster casts (the Orr-Trueta method which got its first full tryout in the Spanish War; TIME, July 8, 1940), and left alone, perhaps for weeks. "Some surgeons made a habit of using sphagnum moss* for surgical dressings...
...tobacco company in Virginia an order for 3,000 copies, reminiscent of the fantastic demand, totaling hundreds of thousands, for reprints of his Readers' Digest article of February titled "Your Stake in Capitalism"). On the West Coast, politicos predict that Johnston in 1944 may unseat Senator Homer Bone of Washington. With a reputation established for driving a middle road between business and Government, Johnston is already political material...