Word: gashing
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...envelope. Before the ground crew could capture the ship an up-draught bounced it away again into the gale, ballooning crazily and quite out of control. Over the flatlands near Flushing Bay Pilot Dixon signalled Mechanic John Blair to yank the ripcord which would open a 25-ft. gash in the top of the helium cell, dropping the blimp instantly. Mechanic Blair leaned from a gondola window, put his weight on the cord, fell out to his death. The Columbia collapsed in a tangle of metal and fabric. From the wreck was dragged Pilot Dixon, unhurt...
...McLarnin, wagerers figured-the best welterweight in the U. S. against a washed-up lightweight. One minute of the first round had passed and McLarnin was landing punches as expected when suddenly Petrolle hit him with a terrific right-hand swing, opened a gash under his left eye. Through the rest of that round, and all succeeding ones, Petrolle chased McLarnin round the ring, landed accurate, hard left hooks, floored him twice in the fourth round, bashed his vainglorious, boyish face into a bloody muddle. McLarnin, half conscious, streaked with blood that oozed from his eyes, his nose...
Charles E. Belt, clerk, was the first man to respond. He leaped to the door. When he couldn't open it, he smashed his fist through the glass. He gasped at what he saw through the tinkling gash. Almost against the door lay the president, bloody, limp, dead. In a corner the vice president was clutching his side, moaning as in an agonizing contortion as he attempted to rise to his feet. The heavy rug was crumpled, a chair was overturned, bullets had ripped the mahogany desk...
...year ago a carpenter at work on the Pittsburgher Hotel, owned by Secretary of the Treasury Mellon and his brother Richard Beatty Mellon, dropped a hammer. It fell through a large plate-glass window in the Frick Building next door. Flying glass cut a 23-inch gash, severed a vertebra, in the back of Mary Hahn, 23, cigar vendor. Last week, after the Mellon lawyers had admitted liability, an Allegheny county jury awarded Miss Hahn $102,427 in damages. The Mellons, through counsel, protested the verdict was excessive, appealed for a new trial...
...doctor clamped his forceps to the gash, left the silver handles hanging. The victor's second caught a smear of blood on a calling card. Doctors and judges agreed the wound was serious enough to end the fight. With the doctor, the vanquished youth moved away, holding up the forceps to keep their weight from his gashed cheek...