Word: mins
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...min. drive to Gemelli, John Paul, bleeding profusely...
...joints of the ring finger of his left hand, ricocheted and grazed his right arm. The other blasted into his abdomen, passing completely through his body and ripping up the Pope's intestines but narrowly missing his pancreas, abdominal aorta and spine. For 5 hr. 25 min., as rumors flew around the world and hospital patients in bathrobes mingled with Italian dignitaries and journalists to exchange shocked speculation, surgeons labored to take out several pieces of the Pope's intestine and perform a colostomy, which would remove wastes outside his body (see box). Giancarlo Castiglioni, chief of surgery...
...inured to such terrorism and violence as it may have thought. True enough, attempted assassinations of public figures have become so commonplace that many draw little attention. Threats and even close calls are routine. In February a grenade exploded in a stadium in Karachi, Pakistan, 20 min. before John Paul entered; the headlines were modest...
...scrappy Atlanta-based Cable News Network beat its broad-shouldered network competition with the first satellite video feed from Rome, but made several errors. More than once, CNN spoke of the Pope in the past tense, and later stated - along with CBS - that the operation had taken only 30 min. ABC Correspondent Bill Blakemore reported at 12:36 (E.D.T.) that the alleged assassin was an Arab. A CBS medical expert, using a text book illustration to explain the Pope's injuries, inadvertently showed a diagram of the female anatomy. There were some lapses in taste as well, though...
...countless blackjack hands since then, Uston and the team of players he generally works with have piled up total winnings of more than $4.5 million. His biggest individual killing was $27,500 in 45 min., at Fremont Casino in Las Vegas in 1975. He once played eight hours a day for 23 straight days, falling behind as much as $35,000 before recouping and finally going ahead...