Word: gashing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...customary zeal in reminding Frenchmen of the glorious hazards of life in the French colonies, the Paris Illustration hastened to print photographs of the jungle tragedy, taken on the scene by the Belgian Congo's official photographer. L'Illustration's cover showed the great white gash the plane had cut in the forest. Inside was a meticulous chart showing the contours of the plane's debris and the exact positions to which the crash hurled the bodies of Governor and Mme Renard and their five companions...
...Toronto, night before they played Chicago, the Americans defeated the Toronto Maple Leafs, 2-to-1. Emms (Americans) received a gash on his head which required seven stitches...
...Japan, was moving Heaven and earth to hush the scandal. He almost succeeded. Seventy-two hours after the wrong turn no Japanese paper yet dared mention it. Then Sergeant Honda, closely guarded to prevent his trying to commit suicide, outwitted his keepers and slashed a four-inch gash in his throat. As he was rushed to hospital the story broke wide open. In Tokyo almost everyone expected the Home Minister, the Governor of the Prefecture and all officials however remotely concerned to resign...
...settle this thing." On second thought he decided to settle it on the spot, led with his right. While Overton flailed his arms wildly, his strapping opponent stood off, slugged fast & hard, soon dropped the Senator to his knees. Bellboys stepped in, carried the loser, bleeding from a gash over his right eye, to his room. Mourned Senator Overton : "I'm afraid that my punches were not very effective. My hands are pretty soft...
...than half a century ago visionary San Franciscans, irked by the scarcity of their water supply, began to talk of a Hetch Hetchy reservoir. From the wild and inaccessible canyon 3,500 ft. above sea level, water would need no pumping on its course to the city. The knife-gash gorge at its outlet was ideal for damming. Thirty-three years ago this week San Francisco asked the U. S. Department of the Interior for permission to build in Yosemite Park. For a decade successive Secretaries of the Interior backed and filled on the Hetch Hetchy project. President Taft appointed...