Word: splinted
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...then get some pictures of Eisenhower carrying baskets of food to the poor, setting a splint on a poor dog whose leg is broken, and helping an aged and venerable lady across the street...
...local doctor put a temporary splint on the broken jawbone and sent Cyril to Belfast's Royal Victoria Hospital. His fractured jaw was soon on the road to recovery, but he still lacked a tongue. Last week, after a series of delicate grafting operations performed in London's Westminster Hospital, at the expense of Britain's national health plan, Cyril had a new tongue. It had been built by three surgeons out of muscle tissue from the floor of his mouth wrapped around with thinly sliced skin from...
...shook hands genially, despite a cracked little finger which he kept in a splint. He winced a little in embarrassment when an occasional hearty Republican tried to clap him on the back. No toast-mistress called Robert Taft "my little...
...besides chairs. He works with three admiring young assistants in a studio littered with kites, machine tools, Indian relics, driftwood and desert plants, all of which help give him ideas for new designs. At one time or another, Eames has tackled everything from movie sets to a molded plywood splint used by the Navy during the war ("A forerunner of the furniture," says Eames, "because it supported the body and was sympathetic...
...biggest prize. Man was bear's biggest prize. Here it had not yet been decided whether man or bear was the crown of creation." But polar man knew a pretty sure way to kill polar bear. After spotting his game, he hid a tightly coiled splint of whalebone in a ball of blubber, froze it intact, and bowled it across the snow to the bear. After a few suspicious licks, the hungry bear usually gulped it down. Soon the blubber melted, releasing the coiled splint and wounding the bear. In the second phase of the hunt, the bear loped...