Word: necks
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...intern you want experience and responsibility - you are trying to become a surgeon, so you want to do what's hard. At the code you hope to intubate, or to put in the huge IVs we use in the big veins of the neck or chest. If the chief wasn't there yet we were the ones who had to start giving directions to the nurses and medical people who filled the room. A smart intern in this situation always watched the face of the oldest nurse and changed course when it told...
...fantastic to walk away knowing there was nothing more we could have done.”Harvard started slow and was in fifth place after the first 300 meters. But the Crimson pushed aggressively and was able to take down each boat ahead of it until it was neck and neck with the Big Red.As both boats crossed the finish line, there was little consensus as to who had won. Only ten minutes later, once the judges had examined a photograph of the finish, was Cornell declared the national champion.“I thought we won the race...
...older brother, had been selected to take the reins of the newspaper, and Bingham had long looked up to him. But, in a line of tragedies for the family, Worth died on vacation in Cape Cod when a surfboard stuffed through the backseat windows jackknifed his neck. After the turn of the century, Bingham’s grandfather had seen two wives die. Two years before Worth’s death, Bingham’s younger brother, Jonathan, died at the age at 22 while climbing an electricity pole. And in 1971, Bingham learned he had Hodgkin?...
...Afonza and his wife and child managed to escape to the hill. Last week he was still in hiding, but receiving treatment for the wounds on his back and neck. Goat breeder Lemos Pires says he'd been watching his flock when he heard shooting. "I saw Lito running," he says. "There is shooting, and then Lito fell over." Pires says he confronted the soldiers. "I said to them, You are worse than the Indonesians...
...Oxford, England Then, according to plan, [Chris] Chataway sprinted into the lead, [Roger] Bannister right at his heels. Some 300 yds. from the finish, Bannister began pouring it on, lengthening his stride for his famed finishing kick, his head rolled back, his neck painfully arched. He tore the tape and collapsed unconscious into the arms of Trainer [Franz] Stampfl. "I wasn't thinking about anything in particular," he said afterward. "I saw the tape faintly ahead, put everything into getting there and that was the last I knew about it." Over the loudspeakers came the meticulous voice of the announcer...