Word: ribbed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...handed a paper-apparently a petition-to a soldier guard. Then he stepped back, whipped out a revolver, fired two shots at the Chancellor. Doughty little Dollfuss staggered, then calmly walked to his automobile. Surgeons found one bullet in his shirt where it had bounced off a rib. The other had only scratched his arm. Safe and sound at home, the Chancellor prepared to make a radio broadcast that night. Meanwhile his assailant, an ex-soldier named Rudolph Dertil who had been ousted from the Army as a Nazi agitator, explained: "I wanted to show that Dollfuss is unable...
...duck shot, was received in the left side at not more than two or three feet distance from the muzzle of the piece, . . . carrying away by its force the integuments more than the size of the palm of a man's hand; blowing off and fracturing the sixth rib . . . , fracturing the fifth, rupturing the lower portion of the left lobe of the lung and lacerating the stomach by a spicule of the rib that was blown through its coat; landing the charge, wadding, fire in among the fractured ribs and lacerated muscles and integuments and burning the clothing...
...when called to administer relief, I proceeded to cleanse the wound, give it a superficial dressing, not believing it possible for him to survive 20 minutes. On attempting to reduce the protruding portions, I found that the lung was prevented from returning by the sharp point of the fractured rib, over which its membrane had caught fast, but by raising up the lung with the forefinger of my left hand I clipped off, with my penknife in my right hand, the sharp point of the rib, which enabled me to return the lung into the cavity of the thorax...
...LOOSE RIB-Austen Allen-Kinsey ($2). Mr. Ferring, tycoon of crime, murders cleverly, leaves many false clues, and finally escapes the Yard...
UNDER THE FIFTH RIB-C. E. M. Joad-Dutton ($3.75). Autobiography of a belligerent British professor...