Word: gash
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Burgos, Barcelona. So do hollow-eyed women in mourning and women who look out of blank, uncomprehending eyes. Symbolic of Spain's people is the bronze statue of King Carlos in Toledo, which lies against its base with legs amputated by a shell, one arm gone and a gash from a shell fragment in its navel. Franco has decreed that the Alcazar be left unrestored, as a monument to "the fury of the Rojos...
...Democratic Vice-Presidential Nominee Henry Wallace and Attorney General Robert Jackson put on an exhibition of boomerang throwing for cameramen (see cut). Before News-photographer Byron Rollins, who was snapping them, could get out of the way, one of the boomerangs came back, knocked him down, cut a deep gash in his scalp...
...Caribbean was her ultimate destination. A few hours out of Newburgh, ice was beginning to elbow his yacht alarmingly, suddenly cut a gash in her planking. In rushed the water. There was nothing to do but abandon ship and take to the rowboat. Mournfully the professor watched his dream of ten years, his $100,000 yacht on which he had no insurance, flop top-heavily on its side. Next thing he and his two shipmates noticed was that the builders had neglected to put seats and oarlocks in the rowboat. They drifted helplessly away with the current. The rowboat leaked...