Word: holing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Slippery. In Houston, small-boned Frank Mullins told how last June he broke out of his death cell in Edinburgh jail: he dieted, greased himself with nose salve, slithered through a 12-inch hole and an 18-inch drainpipe...
...treating mobs. There had been a riot in which prisoners were shot. There had been brutality by the guards, and mass punishment for trivial offenses. Examples: exposure in freezing weather on a windy hill; confinement of 15 men for 36 hours in a 6-by-10-ft. "hole" where they could neither sit nor stand erect. Reported an education officer...
...imagine what a man thinks about while he is in the hole or on the windy hill, or even in the cages trying to keep warm. Most of them think: 'Damn the Army, damn Truman, damn the U.S.' They get to hate their own country and their own people. They say: 'I hope we get into another war. ... I want to fight on the enemy's side.' I've heard men use these words. These are the men we are supposed to be teaching the principles of democracy...
Chain Reaction. In Berkeley, Calif., Harold Wallace's car struck Arlon Tussing, left him cut and bruised. Wallace ran for help, fell in a fish pond, dislocated a finger. His wife, bringing him dry clothes, stepped in a hole, broke her ankle...
...from it like pipes from a furnace. He selected a medium-sized artery that normally carries blood to the head and arm, clamped it to prevent loss of blood, cut it through and tied off the useless upper end. The lower end he pulled downward and stitched into a hole he had made in the side of a pulmonary artery, thus bypassing the pulmonary artery's narrow entrance. While he was making the stitches, the left pulmonary artery had to be clamped for half an hour. And all the time the operation was going on, one of the baby...