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...castles, pubs, inns and festivals, as well as to 840 gardens and 245 battlefields. There is even a bathroom guide, Where to Go in London, which meticulously rates the city's leading public facilities as "Good (*), Unbeatable value (**), Worth traveling out of your way to experience (***), or Royal Flush (****)." (Only Royal Flush: the latrines at Victoria Station, "a Xanadu of hygiene...
...underscores the elusiveness of the enemy in South Viet Nam as the frequent battle communique: "Initial contact was light." In order to engage the Viet Cong, Americans and South Vietnamese have stepped up their "search and clear" thrusts into Communist-held territory, using flame throwers, gas and explosives to flush the Viet Cong from their tunnels, leveling whole forest areas to chop snipers from the trees. Turning the tables, crack Marine sharpshooters are now carrying hunting rifles equipped with telescopic sights able to zero in on guerrillas from afar. B-52s have begun making tandem runs over Viet Cong tunnel...
...paper chambers flush and fill...
...Huang and Li were ready to operate, the temperature of Liang's severed foot had fallen 15° lower than that of its unaffected mate. Quickly, both foot and leg stump were carefully cleansed. An anticoagulant salt solution was forced through the foot's major arteries to flush small blood clots and other circulatory blocks. The lower ends of the two leg bones, the tibia and fibula, as well as some of the talus or anklebone, were trimmed, and two stainless-steel nails were driven up through the heel into the tibia (see diagram). With his ankle fused...
...poker player with his eye on the long chance. Under a circle of light in a smoke-clogged New Orleans hotel room, The Kid sweats it out with a full house while The Man (Edward G. Robinson) ups the stakes on what may or may not be a straight flush. The pot runs to thousands, but this game means more than money. The Man is Lancey Howard, undisputed king of stud poker for more than 30 years, and he knows that the crusty young challenger across the baize means...