Word: kitchener
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...nearest kitchen or Scout knife has saved many a life when used in emergencies to open the chest for massage of a stopped heart. But the method is risky. This week Johns Hopkins University researchers reported success in 50 cases with a faster and safer technique, suitable for use by laymen after a little training. The principle: closed-chest massage...
When his two elder boys were asleep and his wife had gone to the cinema, George Ernest Johnson, 40, a major in the Royal Corps of Signals, carried his three-month-old son's cot into the kitchen of their home in Epsom, 14 miles west of London. Dipping his finger in tap water, Johnson made the sign of the cross on the baby's forehead and baptized him David Ernest James. Then Johnson took a flexible gas pipe, put it on the baby's pillow and turned on the gas. When he returned to the kitchen...
...West, without that gifted writer's savage humor. His story is wired to the tangled nerve ends of the collection of oddballs and misfits who stumbled in unrelieved bewilderment through The Field of Vision, including a sagging, dyspeptic housewife who stands weepingly on varicose-veined legs over the kitchen sink lamenting the candy-box sweetheart she never was, and her father, a mad old man of 90 who sits alone in a ghost town reliving the Death Valley days and Indian burials he never saw. Morris employs a vocabulary of extravagant and irritating symbolism; the characters ruminate at length...
bean gun (World War II)-mobile kitchen...
...book is best when it describes the waits between action, the stolid troops, the squalor of encampments, the casualness with which a field kitchen is constructed from gravestones, the pulpit of a mosque broken up for firewood, the everlasting search for provisions and the solid enjoyment that comes from the windfall that is a well-cooked meal. Old campaigners will appreciate Gary's admiring definition of an old soldier, later echoed by Bernard Shaw in Arms and the Man: "A man who always has something eatable in his haversack and drinkable in his bottle, a reserve of tobacco...