Word: crutches
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...colleagues insert it without dangerously cutting down blood supply and without introducing infection. Surgeons at the hospital cautiously say they "have no opinion one way or another about this case." But they add that they are not quite satisfied with the way the bone is mending around the metal crutch, possibly because of impaired circulation...
Smooth Borers. In Yonkers, N.Y., 73-year-old, crutch-carrying Sweeney McIntyre and 35-year-old John Mitchell got into an argument over Mclntyre's daughter, went home for their shotguns, repeatedly perforated each other at 60 paces, spent ten days having the slugs removed, came to court...
Plans for a ceremony were swept away in a rush of plain people to make tired and broken men feel welcome. Dockers, Forth riveters, nurses, generals, sergeants, privates, onlookers and excited children laughed, wept, blew their noses hard. Cripples, as they came ashore, thumped the Scottish ground with their crutch tips, said: "By God. It's good." In the hubbub few heard General Sir Ronald Adam read a message from Their Majesties, beginning: "The Queen and I bid you a very warm welcome. . . . We rejoice to think that you are safely home...
...backed by the U.S. Treasury, is negotiable in the U.S., is permanent money by all currency laws. On the other hand, invasion money is not intended to be permanent in Sicily (or any other country where it may later be used). It is only a kind of monetary crutch provided by the joint military occupying force until a permanent currency is established...
...cheek, they demanded their prepaid bonus immediately, for a war into which they would not drag the U.S. The Chicago University chapter offered the slogan: "We'll make the world safe for hypocrisy." In a parade up Broadway, V.F.W.s carried death's-heads, the drum major a crutch. The campaign landed the V.F.W. on the nation's front pages. The U.S. that had made Merchants of Death a best-seller cheered; veterans of World War I jeered. Exploded James E. Van Zandt, national commander of the Veterans of Foreign Wars (and now a Congressman from Pennsylvania): "They...