Word: horseback
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Next of the "backwoods obstetricians" to win Graham's praise was Ephraim McDowell of Danville, Ky. In 1809, he persuaded Jane Todd Crawford, 47 (and a cousin of Mary Todd Lincoln), to travel 60 miles on horseback to his surgery, though she was very ill. Lacking anesthesia, Jane Crawford kept up her courage by repeating the Psalms while Dr. McDowell made surgical history with the first ovariotomy - and removed a 15-lh. ovarian cyst...
...They avoided subway entries and streetcar stations where blue-shirted Falange strong-arm men were waiting to shove them aboard the empty cars. Shops were empty all day. In the evening the same antlike processions marched silently homewards. Thousands of police patrolled the streets in trucks, cars and on horseback...
When Graves decided to get out of the cattle business and take things easier, he did it in his usual flamboyant way. With his wife, seven herders and a dog named Sparky (the "equal of five men on horseback"), Graves rounded up his cattle and drove them along the road into Denver, the first such cattle drive the city had seen since "the old days." Even with half a million in the bank, Graves was not quite satisfied. Said he: "Think what I could'a done with an education...
...next three years Ossorio attended to Prince Adan's education, was sometimes to be seen escorting the Infanta Dolores on horseback excursions through the Andalusian countryside. The infanta's exalted rank and the 16-year difference in their ages stilled gossip...
Field commanders estimated that Chinese losses in the bitter fighting totaled more than 120,000 men-though this was admittedly a horseback estimate, as a retreating army is a poor judge of enemy losses...