Word: holing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Comeuppance. Near Swift Current, Sask., Bachelor-Farmer Alfred Bessant lived alone in his cellar through 16 profitless, bad crop years, grew a $2,500 crop this year, came out of the hole...
...last week's Lancet, Captain Wilson explained her amazing survival: on opening the wound - it ran from her left side a little above the waist to a spot near her navel - he found that the shilling-sized hole nicked out of her intestine had be come fixed against the corresponding hole in her abdominal wall, so that no contaminating material could touch the vulnerable abdominal lining. Such material trickled out through the wound, where it could do comparatively little harm. Wrote the Captain admiringly: "In her successful management of this case, Nature endorses the principles at present advocated...
Vicious Circle. In Peoria, Ill., a frustrated burglar gave up after trying four times to crack a safe with a welding torch that promptly sealed up each hole that it melted open...
What would the beast do now? Hole up in the Siegfried line and try to live a few days longer? Still try to fend off the powerful Russian assaults on the east and in the Balkans ? Live on after these bastions had fallen, while boys and old men, now under training in the Reich, died to postpone the day of doom...
...they lost again. Farther up the Foglia, other Eighth Army units stormed across; the front was consolidated on a 20-mile stretch, and a deadly hole three to four miles deep was punched in the Gothic Line...