Word: rodding
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...Roman Empire, and there seems to be no reason except pure niggardliness that they should not have been worked in too. Items: defeated General Robert E. Lee telling a Confederate soldier (David Bruce) that "we must move with the ages"; a Berlin correspondent for Leslie's Weekly (Rod Cameron) scooping the world on the opening of Bismarck's Austro-Prussian War, with the help of a dancer named Anna Maria (Yvonne de Carlo); Anna Maria emerging from a shell to the strains of The Blue Danube to dance some elementary ballet; an energetic cavalry battle in which...
...poorer Randy Phillips who spurred his subway car ever onward Saturday last. The "Dolph", once of Hollywood, has made a standing date at one of Beantown's favorite nightspots--the Touraine Bar. How naive must have been the faces of Bill "The Bradford" Shirey, Don "Raymore Playmore" Royce and Rod "Scollay Square" Rolain as this threesome was asked to desert their regular haunts for a well-spent Saturday in Wellesley...
Temporarily seated in the Varsity shell are: stroke, Toby Ross; seven, Hal Grant; six, Miles Wambaugh; five, Rod Perkins; four, Bob Macnamara; three, Tom Haymond; two, John Kettelle; and bow, Pete Roll. Coxing the boat is veteran Dan Paul...
After his exchange, U.S. Army doctors X-rayed the soldier's leg. They were amazed at what they saw: a half-inch metal rod of some kind had been rammed down the thighbone through the marrow for three-quarters of the bone's length, thus supplying a permanent, internal splint...
Mechanically, the surgeons agree, there is no reason such a splint should not work if the lower end of the rod were firmly wedged in hard tissue. But in the past, use of internal splints has been restricted to slim wire to align broken bones in fingers, toes and arms. In such cases, outside splinting is also used and the mended bones are not required to withstand any end-to-end pressure. They call the rod technique "a daring operation" and wonder how their German colleagues insert it without dangerously cutting down blood supply and without introducing infection. Surgeons...