Word: bunk
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...British Medical Research Union was optimistic about the new treatment. But doctors at Manhattan's Memorial Hospital who had never heard of Hosa Laboratories or Researcher Thompson, were skeptical. Said one doctor: "Pure bunk." But he admitted a bare possibility that there might be something to H 11. Even specialists have little idea where the eventual answer to cancer will be found...
...four occidental fellow-officers dropped ashore to bunk at Henry Meyer's middling Palmerston Hotel. Chow Jockie went to his room, began to unpack. Ten minutes later came a message: the guest must return his key. The Palmerston didn't cater to colored people...
...blood. Bombardier-navigator of an Army 6-25, he was severely wounded in the legs during the bombing of a Jap base in the Marshalls. He might have died but for a plasma transfusion fellow crew members gave him in midair. Plasma transfusions by doctors and nurses aboard big, bunk-filled hospital evacuation planes are nothing new. But Lieut. Doyle's planemates had never given a full transfusion before. (The flight surgeon, Captain Lowell Ladd Eddy, had insisted on crews taking along plasma, had taught them...
...returned from Tarawa on a transport which brought out many wounded. The Marine officer in the bunk below me said that first night, 'Can you see?' I said yes, I could see. He said, 'I can't see-I will never see again...
Painter George Luks: ";Da Vinci is the bunk-a mathematician, a subway digger." >An offer by a Manhattan tattooist to prick the Last Supper in eight colors...