Word: chests
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...marines from the ist Marine Division were captured by Communists while on patrol near Nakchon Dong, Jan. 29, 1951. Recovered corpses showed that the prisoners had been stripped and bound, bayoneted in back and chest. Later a North Korean officer, captured by U.N. forces, admitted that each prisoner was ordered to sit on the ground and then used by Communist soldiers for bayonet practice...
...decide not to bury him under the sidewalk ("Aw-ya gotta kill him first"), but to finesse his extinction. One of the boys gets his father's rifle, lets Joey pull the trigger. Older brother Lennie falls down groaning, with a sinister smear of ketchup spreading on his chest. The others shout, "He's dead! You killed your brother, Joey!" Terrified. Joey runs home. No mother. Desperate, he grabs the $6 she left for them, and, hugging his trusty six-shooter, takes it on a lonesome lam that leads him to the end of the subway line that...
...with a set of stock grimaces and gestures which they manage to pass off as acting for a while. But when these wear out not even Ford's direction can help the picture. The most exciting characters in the second half of the picture are a group of screaming, chest-pounding buck gorillas...
...needle into his arm, has passed. Modern anesthesiology has been developed, mainly in the past 15 years, to a complex discipline. In the best medical centers, the anesthesiologist ranks with the internist and the surgeon, has equal responsibility for the patient's care and survival. Said a noted chest surgeon recently: "The anesthesiologist is the forgotten hero. The surgeon gets the glory, but without the anesthesiologist's skill the surgeon wouldn't get very...
...receive oxygen and intravenous infusions while on his way to the recovery room. To relieve pain after he regains consciousness, he gets meperidine. (But not enough to relieve all pain because, says Dr. Sadove. that would also eliminate the cough reflex, "the watchdog and clean-up man of the chest.") Oxygen is usually discontinued within a couple of days. With that, the anesthesiologist's task is about done...