Word: ev
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...puzzled to find an empty space. She stuffed this with rags to stop the bleeding. Then the police ambulance sirened up and rushed the boy to the emergency room of Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston. There, when his long-sleeved shirt was removed, the full extent of Ev Knowles's injury became clear: his right arm was completely severed from the shoulder...
...their ability to put a severed human limb back in place, with bones, blood vessels, nerves, muscles and skin all reconnected-but they had never had a suitable case. In most accidental amputations, the limb is too badly mangled, and the patient's general condition too poor. Ev Knowles was different...
...Leave "Ev and Charlie" alone. They are doing a tremendous job. They are real Republicans. So what if Ev has curly hair. And it is easy for Charlie to powder his red nose. The late Sam Rayburn was as bald as a billiard ball. I never heard any criticism of Sam. He did his job for the Democrats very well. Ev and Charlie are doing equally well for the Republicans...
...Ev & Charlie. Jackie donned jodhpurs for a few jumps on a horse named Princess. Her ride was flawless, but an embarrassed Indian officer was thrown. Said the First Lady of her horse at ride's end: "She jumped like a bird." Jackie fed pandas and an elephant, watched a cobra rise to music, saw a battle between a mongoose and a snake. Among the many gifts she received were a pair of tiger cubs that were first named Ev and Charlie (for G.O.P. Congressional Leaders Everett Dirksen and Charles Halleck)-until one turned out to be a female...
...perhaps a good thing, since the book is terrible. Jokes about the Kennedy family, sneers at Time, and a couple of anti-FDR cracks that haven't been heard around Harvard for some years--these are not inherently funny things. Nor are puns, hairy-legged kicklines, topical names like Ev and Charley, liquor, or sex, automatic laff riots. You have to work hard to make material like this fresh, and Wilson hasn...