Word: legging
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...they entered. It was warmer inside and the stench was overpowering. Dr. Prozorovsky ripped open a corpse numbered 808, sliced chunks off the brain like cold meat, knifed through the chest and pulled out an atrophied organ. "Heart," he said, holding it out to Kathy. Then he slit a leg muscle. "Look how well preserved the meat is," he said. The skulls all revealed a small hole at the back, generally another through the forehead, showing that the Poles had been butchered by pistol, fired from behind. Eleven doctors were averaging 160 post-mortems daily...
...advantages of loud, clear medical advice were learned last week by Dr. Frederick William Haskell McKee of Manhattan's Park Ave. He strapped $2,300-worth of radium in three narrow, inch-long tubes to a woman patient's leg (to treat a small cancer) and told her to go to his office rest room. She misunderstood him and went to the hairdressers' instead...
...destroyed U-boat which sank the lifeboat's ship. His life is saved when Shipbuilder Rittenhouse insists on democratic procedure and the observance of international law. When a dance-hall addict (William Bendix) develops gangrene, it is the German captain, an ex-surgeon, who amputates the gangrened leg. As the passengers grow weaker, the German takes charge and rows, hour after hour, comforting the derelicts by singing Lieder...
...airmail pilot on the Chicago-Omaha run and was forced by bad weather to pancake his plane into a treetop, he has doggedly campaigned for greater safety in flying. Unhurt in the crash, he toppled ignobly to the ground while getting out of his wrecked ship, broke his leg, quit flying. Since its beginning in 1931 he has headed the A.L.P.A. (4,500 members), which he helped found. Reasonable in his dealings with management, Behncke has been unrelentingly stubborn about safety measures...
...Pundit Lippmann, in an aside, was less appreciative of the President's administrative talents: "When he needs a suit of clothes [he] will find three tailors, will tell each of them to make one leg of the trousers, will let each of them guess which leg he is working on, and will then appoint a fourth tailor to coordinate the trousers...