Word: man
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...only thing Latin Americans like better than a crisis is a strong man to sit back and look to during it. They habitually refer to such a cynosure as El Hombre -The Man. Last week Latin Americans picked out El Hombre to cope with the world crisis. They wrote editorials praising his attitude, talked about him in bars, shops, homes, and, as if he were a fighting cock to be pitted one day against the ruler of the roost, began to say that in the end it would be up to El Hombre to stop the Führer...
...corporation lawyer who spends his spare time loafing with dory fishermen on the Nova Scotia coast, fishing and eating lobsters, he has long refused to nibble Cabinet bait. But once in, he was expected because of his bulldog tenacity and narrow partisanship to become the Government's strongest man...
Meanwhile the unlucky Chinese began to feel the gale's force. Having once hated foreign devils for exploiting China, now they look upon them as China's white hope for resistance against Japan. But the European War lessened probability of aid from the white man. In Hong Kong, for instance, which has been the centre of Chinese financial juggling, the British announced that they could no longer allow unrestricted exchange of currencies. China's financial brain, Harvard-educated T. V. Soong, immediately went inland to Chungking, taking with him most of China's financial resources, human...
Military surgeons work by one rule of thumb: patch up and move on. At frontline dressing stations neither time nor sentiment is wasted on the hopelessly injured. A seriously wounded man has to survive the long stretcher trip through collecting station, hospital station, evacuation hospital to base hospital, some 30 or 40 miles behind the lines, before he is permitted the medical luxuries of thoroughgoing surgical care...
...When a man is perforated by a bullet, the bullet does not always go into or through him in a straight track, even when the holes where the bullet came in and 'went out are in a straight line. A sharp-nosed bullet is easily deflected by ribs or tough muscles. A surgeon must explore the internal track of all penetrating bullets, no matter how tiny the entering wounds may seem. If he meets an abdominal wound, for instance, he must first cut off all jagged infected surface tissue. Without damaging important nerves, veins, arteries, he must then pull...