Word: gashing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Jackson, looking his 70 years, adjusted his bifocal spectacles, described his method of repairing a throat crushed and puckered by a blow, strangulation, fall, crash or gash: "We have gone to the iron foundry for mechanical aid in treating such cases. Iron is cast through the use of sand cores that have the shape of the desired casting. We need a core that has the shape of the normal larynx so that we can mold from the amorphous mass of shattered cartilage, torn tissue and blood clots the opening necessary for the normal functioning of the organ." To do that...
Driving alone in Los Angeles Newlywed Senator William Gibbs McAdoo of California, 71, swerved to avoid another car, crashed into a telephone pole. His injuries: fractured wrist, bruised chest, six-stitch nose gash...
...passionate movement she drove it home, straight downwards through the naked breast, up to the hilt, then drew it out and cast it down on the plank. . . . With a raucous cry Marat fell backwards . . . stiffened in agony, his eyes staring, his tongue protruding and blood gushing from the gash" to stain the water of his bath. Death was instantaneous, for the blow, clean and skillful, traversed the lung and opened the heart...
...churning blithely back from Gibraltar in a woolly fog 36 miles off Portugal. Since it was 3:15 a. m., most of her crew and passengers were asleep. Suddenly, they were jolted wide awake as the squat French freighter Formigny plowed into the Doric, dealt her an 18-ft. gash at the waterline below the bridge. Speedily, Captain Grieg issued an SOS, ordered his 520 passengers & some crew members into the lifeboats, whence they were soon picked up by the Orion and the Viceroy of India, carried on toward England. The Doric and the Formigny limped to Vigo and Lisbon...
...regulars and fired point blank into them. A valiant Vermonter went to port arms and demanded, according to the rules of sham battle, that a regular in an exposed position surrender. The regular made a pass with his bayonet and several rude remarks. The Vermonter got a nasty gash under the eye. Thereupon the Vermonters clubbed two regulars unconscious with their rifles before umpires could interfere. After that the umpires made a strict rule that opposing forces could not approach within 300 yards of each other...