Word: method
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...rope and the person was alive when hanged. Suicide by shooting also has a characteristic pattern: a suicide usually shoots himself in the temple, often misses the first two or three times (technically known as "hesitation shots"). Shooting oneself in the head is not the quickest or surest suicide method. Shooters often live for hours or days after hitting themselves. It is very difficult to shoot oneself in the heart (the bullet usually ricochets off the breastbone or a rib). Oddly, suicides never seem to shoot themselves through their clothes, seem always to bare the skin. Suicide by stabbing...
Meanwhile, the Eighth Air Force's Gentile, a crack airman who had been embarrassed by his command's extraordinary method of making top man of him, worked might & main to run his score of ships shot down in the air from 23 to the mystic...
Navy doctors call it "fourway infusion." Working on marines wounded at Guadalcanal, surgeons found that some patients would bleed to death if they waited for plasma to dribble in through one tube, developed a quicker method of transfusion. Last week in Manhattan Captain French Robert Moore, a surgeon who is a veteran of Guadalcanal and Tarawa, described the new method...
...stand, urging instead the "chosen instrument" policy (TIME, Nov. 8). This week, pinko Author Matthew Josephson (The Robber Barons, The Politicos) entered the controversy with a new book, Empire of the Air (Harcourt, Brace; $3). In trying to decide between the two views, Author Josephson has adopted a historical method: to determine whether competition or the "chosen instrument" is better, first study how the methods have worked in the past. Although it may surprise non-airminded citizens, Author Josephson says that the prewar U.S. backed the "chosen instrument" policy. The instrument: Pan American Airways. But how did the U.S. come...
...Anglo-American has its own peculiar roundabout method of interrogation. We no longer say: sayest thou? The modern form of the question is: do you say? . . . In a few years no one will object to did he ought...