Word: gash
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...prisoner to the station house and was then treated at St. Luke's Hospital for bruises of both shoulders, 4) reported back to duty, 5) jumped into the Hudson River in near-freezing temperature and rescued a drowning man, 6) retired to a hospital again to have a gash in his leg stitched up, and 7) was put to bed and treated for chills, submersion and shock. Shrugged he, in character: "It's all in a day's work...
...small rings, was practicing passes with a small but sharp-horned cow on a ranch near Aguascalientes. Mexico. In the middle of a pass, Pat snapped her cape too quickly. The cow charged and gored her in the right thigh. In the hospital, where doctors treated a ten-inch gash, Pat said: "I can't wait to get out of here and fight bulls again...
After 20 minutes, peace returned to the chamber, now slopped with ink and blood and littered with glass shards, torn paper and shredded shirts. One usher went to the hospital with a brain concussion; a Red sported a two-inch-deep gash in his scalp; a Demo-Christian nursed a badly bruised abdomen; the House first-aid station impartially bandaged Red heads and court-plastered Demo-Christian faces...
...seats arranged in a novel way: backs to the engines, so that passengers faced the tail. Many air experts have long held that this would be safer in case of accidents. As the Hermes cracked open, most of the passengers were hurled from their seats through the huge gash in the plane's body, into the sea. Seven people were almost certainly killed. But 50 got off with nothing worse than a chilly dunking, were quickly rescued by Sicilian fishermen...
Poor Aldebaran Flood. She is beautiful (if one admires a face of "grey bone with a coral gash across it"), and she could paper Piccadilly with the receipts from her bestselling novel, Bells on Her Fingers. But Aldebaran is a child of fate-the "blood guilt" of her ancestors keeps "working itself out," and she "can't help being passionate about anything to do with colored people...