Word: scars
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Villiers lost his leg in a grain mower when he was five, bears a scar on his left leg from the same accident...
...years with the paratroopers, August Falen fell into two swamps, off a cliff, and rolled down a steep embankment, got a bad scar on his head, dislocated his right shoulder and pulled several ligaments, fractured his right knee cap, busted two ribs on his left side, bloodied his nose while being scraped along the ground by his parachute. He fainted when he reported for duty, was operated on for an infection in his left leg, saw a major of the Canadian Parachutists get cut in two in mid-air and two boys drowned in the Chattahoochee River, passed his jumping...
...London Daily Express dropped a few sentimental tears last fortnight over the "muddy scar" that had been made on the grounds by bulldozers and steam shovels, "advancing like a serpent of destruction, leaving a hideous trail. ..." The Ministry of Works and Planning was not touched. Coldly, it said that in times like these, the main thing was to get the coal. They were getting it, at the rate of 25,000 tons a week...
...lonely Alpine village the French mountaineers had ceased to speak of Bastineau. Some said he was "missing," some said he was dead. The cold, sphinxlike stranger with a dueling scar on his cheek (he said he was Swiss, called him self de Vaudois) was also curious about Bastineau. He wondered why so many peasants were knitting mittens with an identical, peculiar pattern; why peasants came from miles around to lay food on a lonely mountain shrine; why the old cure's sermons were almost unintelligible to strangers. Whenever Fenton started up the mountains in search of Bastineau, she found...
...Strauss's idea is to alter the flutter ratio by stiffening the fluttering parts with small areas of scar tissue. These are produced by tiny injections of an irritating drug, sylnasol, which produces small fibrous areas wherever injected. He tried sylnasol on seven married patients. Treatment was repeated every week for five or six weeks. The only discomforts reported were a feeling of thickness at the back of the throat or a five-minute earache...