Word: eves
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Through the streets milled the crowds of a holiday eve: men & women in khaki and blue, red-coated Mounties. Everywhere bands tested their brass throats; the crowds sang marching songs. Across the Ottawa River, in the little manufacturing city of Hull, the drab factories were decked in bunting. And out at Rideau Hall, where the Governor General of Canada lives, workmen raced their mowing machines across the wide lawns...
...Berlin in 1939, on the eve of Czechoslovakia's dissolution, plodding President Emil Hacha had collapsed after 45 minutes of the Führer's ranting...
...Eve wrote: "Formerly I regarded the breathing thorax as a concertina bellows; my present work suggests that it resembles rather a cylinder and piston." But this reverse action of the lungs, he contends, is often missing in actual cases of injury or drowning. Reason: a patient's diaphragm is relaxed, flaccid. So Dr. Eve tried something else...
...seesawing brings the abdominal organs up against the diaphragm when the head is down with enough force to push the breath out; then, when feet go down, the organs pull down the diaphragm and air is drawn into the lungs. Other advantages of the Eve rocker: wounds and burns of the trunk can be attended to while rocking is going on; anyone can teeter the board for hours on end; it is harmless-ribs and liver cannot be injured...
...eve of Dec. 7, 1941, Dr. Seagrave slept without a mosquito net. He has not been free of malaria since. When the bombing of Rangoon began and the American women and children were ordered out of Burma, Mrs. Seagrave reluctantly agreed to go (she had malaria...