Word: holing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Five days after the accident the hole in the man's lung closed. No more air escaped into his skin and Dr. Atkinson removed the air-venting needles. "The patient's recovery was slow but uneventful...
...when the man came to the door with the announcement that the girl, Helen Milner, had fainted in his car. Employer and fiancé carried the girl upstairs to bed. The fiancé left "to get a doctor." Mrs. Malenfant bathed the girl's forehead, discovered a bullet hole behind Miss Milner's ear. The girl had been dead for an hour. The fiancé had vanished...
...moat, 400 miles long and 150 wide, it roughly parallels the Abyssinian border, sinks to 400 feet below sea level, boasts temperatures as high as 156° in the shade. Before Explorer Nesbitt, no white man had ever succeeded in crossing it, though three expeditions had tried. In Hell-Hole of Creation he tells how he and two Italian companions, with a native caravan, traversed the entire length of the Danakil in eventual safety, though only occasional comfort. In spite of the violent title his narrative is straight-forward and quiet. No racketeering travelogger. Author Nesbitt says little more...
...given the vastly expanded role of Clive's wife and though this no doubt brings more fans to the box-office it can hardly be said to add to the strength of the picture. The famous events in the history are told with dramatic force which make the Black Hole and the Battle of Plassey step out of the cold of black and white into vivid animation...
Technically the ruling dealt only with the three cases brought up from the Circuit Court. But there was no doubt last week that Mr. Fox, retreating into his hole, would lose little time pulling the rest of his forlorn litigation in after...