Word: spined
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Sample of the Tangle. Looking forward from a Fifth Army regimental O.P. (observation post), the men could see their problem ahead-mountain ridges converging to a bottleneck, and in the bottleneck two obstructions, a bare rocky spine and a round wooded knoll. These hills squeezed Highway No. 6 into a horseshoe before it could straighten out on its way to Cassino and Rome, 90 miles away. Infantrymen named the hills "Old Baldy" and "The Fat One," and got ready to take them...
...bruising fight against terrain as well as pillboxes, snipers' nests, mined roads, concealed mortars' and artillery. The Apennine spine of Italy scatters rough, irregular ribs in all directions. Rain-flooded rivers gouge the land. Perched on heights above the valley-bottom roads, the Germans could give ground slowly and at a stiff price. General Mark Clark's Fifth Army pried them from Mondragone, the western anchor of their line. General Bernard Montgomery's Eighth bit sharply toward Isernia, key to the enemy's center, and Vasto, his east coast anchor...
...said to him, 'If I were to tell you that you have no ulcer or cancer, and that there is no reason to expect one in the future, and if I were to assure you that this ache is due only to a little arthritis around your spine which may bother you off & on for years without bringing you to any bad end, what would you do?' His answer delighted me. He said, 'I'd say, to hell with it!' And off he went happy and . . . cured...
...suffered a spine injury in an auto accident (1910), lay in a plaster cast for seven months. His first act after being discharged was to rush to his billiard rooms and grab a cue. He was as good as ever-but only for a few minutes at a time. He worked on fancy shots, mastered the mysteries of angles and ballspin, became the game's Fancy Dan, a combination cue-and-ivory Houdini and amiable Billy Sunday, who evangelized for the game...
Patients are assigned to wards according to their injuries: there are orthopedic wards, head and spine wards, malaria, abdominal wound and dysentery wards. At his ward a patient is undressed, put in pajamas. His clothes, except for his shoes, helmet and gas mask, are stored away in a labeled bag. After that, he is X-rayed to find whatever metal he is carrying inside him, or the extent of his hurt. Then he is given what dressings and surgery he needs. As soon as a patient's condition warrants moving, he is sent to a hospital farther...