Word: legging
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...hoop, heep, two. . . ." The men whistle when a girl goes by. In the wards, they hop around playing shuffleboard and indoor golf. Some of those still in bed play darts, watch movies. A Red Cross worker brings a birthday cake with candles to a smiling 24-year-old whose leg is fastened to a weight and pulley. In the recreation hall others hear a lecture on the future of Atlanta's housing industry...
...Stokes has kept himself half head and half legs ever since. He spends about as much time roving the nation as he spends in Washington. At least two of his reportorial exposes have resulted in Congressional investigations. Last week he was plugging away powerfully and persistently for another-of Thomas G. ("Tommy the Cork") Corcoran's reputed influence in the Department of Justice. In 1939 he won a Pulitzer Prize for his leg-&-headwork in uncovering the political prostitution of WPA in Kentucky. This year he won his fellow correspondents' vote as the Washington reporter doing the best...
...When the Canadian was brought in, his artery was severed by a bullet and his leg and foot were cold and white. We slipped in a glass tube. . . . The blood started to flow and the foot got warm and pink." Thus, in the antiseptic gloom of a casualty clearing station in Belgium, 30-year-old Major William Thornton Mustard last week described a new surgical trick which he hopes will borrow time for many a war-mangled limb, many a life...
...Lieut. Lawson and his crew, the raid ends in wreckage and agony on the China coast. Guerrillas help the broken men inland. Chinese doctors do all they can with heartbreakingly scanty medical supplies. Gangrene develops in Ted Lawson's leg; by the time an American doctor reaches him, there is nothing to do but take it off. In a shot which M.G.M. had the creditable courage to leave in the picture, despite preview complaints, two nurses carry the grim weight of the leg away down a corridor...
...length the survivors are assembled safely, and flown back to the States. In Washington's Walter Reed Hospital, Lawson at last sees his wife again. As she comes through the door he stands up from his wheelchair-forgetful of his lost leg-and falls, gruesomely hard, in the most shocking and piteous moment any American war film has yet dared to exhibit...