Word: scars
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...game's as good as ever, maybe better," admitted scar-faced Tennistar Pancho Gonzales. "I'm O.K. on passing shots and return of serve. We go along neck and neck, each holding service. Then he wins." From Milwaukee to White Plains, N.Y. and on through Pittsfield and Springfield, Mass., it had been as simple as that. When his pro tour with Big Jake Kramer reached Washington, D.C. last week, Gonzales was hollow-eyed from loss of sleep and the humiliation of 17 defeats against three wins...
Bartender Red O'Shea's vision comes after Gangster Scar shoots a dreamy rival for the love of a moll named Lu. As Lu holds the dying rival in her arms, Red sees
...Scar repents his way straight to the electric chair. Later, he repents some more by coming from another world (not clear whether heaven or hell) with 14 subordinate mobsters to protect Lu, who is now an Army nurse on the battlefield. Somewhat taken aback by this rash of miracles, Red O'Shea admits
...Mores New Guinea. The Japs got away without being touched by U.S. fighters. Even the antiaircraft shooting was wretchedly ineffective . 150 to 0. General Kenney Reports is Kenney's brash, galloping and long-winded explanation of how he all that. Short (5 ft. 6 in.), bristle-haired and scar-cheeked, Kenney ruthlessly rid himself of incompetent brass, re-trained his flyers and lifted them from lethargy to lethal effectiveness in a few short weeks. To replace plane losses, they built spare-parts crates from wrecked machines. Kenney himself invented the low-level parachute-fragmentation bomb and adopted skip bombing...
Traditional treatment for the stiffened joints of arthritis has been to scrape the ends of the bones, then wrap the exposed bone surfaces in a smooth material to keep the scar tissue from sticking the joint together again. But in the knee joint, where wear & tear is heavy, such an operation gave only short relief: as the material wore out, the joints stiffened up again...