Word: gash
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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First word of the disaster came to the U.S. Coast Guard's Boston station radio, which heard the faint words "Pan . . . pan . . . pan . . .," an international signal meaning that an urgent message follows. It was from the Shalom, which had a 40-ft.-long gash in her bow and was shipping tons of sea water into her No. 1 hold. Minutes later, a Long Island Coast Guard radio monitored a distress call from the Stolt Dagali. The Coast Guard asked Washington's Federal Communications Commission for a radio fix on the vessels. Navy and Coast Guard helicopters and planes...
Garcia hunted up a doctor, who stitched up a 1¼-in. gash cleaving through to the skull. For Garcia, a laconic, spotlight-shunning sort, the aftermath was almost worse than the ordeal of the rescue. There were grateful phone calls from Premier lagan's U.S.-born wife Janet, a U.S. State Department protest, and an announcement that the mounted cops who had ignored Garcia's pleas for help had been suspended. The final flourish was the arrival of a delegation of East Indian women who brought a document of thanks and a pair of gold cuff links...
Then this summer Harry's athletic career seemed to be over for good. A motorcycle accident left him with a deep gash that went almost through his left leg and required 30 stitches. Miraculously, it missed both hamstring muscles, but Van Oudenallen suffered a severed nerve and three broken fingers...
...other probable Crimson scorers are Captain Bill Crain, apparently recovered from a knee gash he suffered two weeks ago, Dave Allen, who finished second in both wins last week, and sophomores Jim Smith and Chuck Redman...
Both Captain Bill Crain and senior stalwart John Ogden have worked out sparingly this week and are doubtful performers in today's triangle meet. Crain suffered a gash on his knee in last week's loss to Brown, and Ogden has had a cold...