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Shortly after 8 o'clock on the evening of Dog Day-plus-15, Dr. Silvis and I crawled through the blacked-out entrance into one of these cistern operating rooms. Beneath the big non-shadow electric lamps lay a Marine captain who had been a Jap machine gunner's target about three hours earlier. Dr. John A. Harper held up the wounded man's slashed, liver-colored spleen: "We also took out a piece of kidney," he said, "and he has a bullet through his diaphragm and lung. He asked for a priest right away." Silvis pulled...
Inferno. In Kansas City, Mo., Dr. S. S. Hill heard strange noises under the front porch of his new house, called firemen to investigate. From a 20-ft. dry cistern were lifted (all alive) a chow, a Boston bulldog, a white Angora...
...entered the University of Missis sippi when he was only 14 (his prep school had closed because of typhoid spread when a pig fell down a cistern...
...circles round a cistern's wall...
Help to clean out rain water cistern...