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Thus Creel amputated his forearm. Holding the arm against his ribs and squeezing it with his right hand to stanch the bleeding, he walked a mile to the nearest house, where he got a towel for a crude tourniquet. Two hours after the accident, he got to a hospital in Hattiesburg. Professionals tidied up his rough & ready surgery, and Creel was soon resting easily. Then he expressed his chief fear: that the amputation might make it harder for him to support his wife and baby...
...batting average is the movie's climax: Dizzy triumphing over objections by teachers' organizations to his barefoot-boy grammar on the airwaves. Dan Dailey makes a likable Huck Finn in spikes, complete with such Dean-Arkansas accents as "slud into third base" and "the batter takes a stanch at the plate." In their own way, Joanne Dru's curves are as impressive as Dizzy...
...former resident of Tennessee, a stanch Harvard man, and a devoted follower of the CRIMSON, I feel obliged to point out that Oak Ridge, Tennessee, was never inhabited by "mountain music and residents," as your article on Oak Ridge, Massachusetts, of March 20 declares. Until the Manhattan Project suddenly appeared in the middle of World War II, the area now known as Oak Ridge was a pleasant and sparsely inhabited valley. On a nearby ridge there grew a mighty oak. Thus, when the Army had time to pause amid its mighty atomic labors, it decided to name the Project construction...
...Ghent negotiations, gave Chase a letter of introduction to him). Because of this backing, and because Kenyon's first building had walls four feet thick, surrounding frontier settlers suspected the college of being a British fort. Kenyon's ultimate response was the turning out of such stanch U.S. citizens as Lincoln's Secretary...
...United States has no ulterior designs against any of its neighbors anywhere on earth. We can speak with the extraordinary power inherent in this unselfishness. We need but one rule. What is right? Where is justice? There let America take her stanch...