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...checked my body. Three upper teeth were chipped off; perhaps a roof tile had hit me. My left arm was pierced by a piece of wood that stuck in my flesh like an arrow. Unable to pull it out, I tied a tourniquet around my upper arm to stanch the flow of blood. I had no other injuries, but I did not run away. We were taught that it was cowardly to desert one's classmates. So I crawled about the rubble, calling, 'Is there anyone alive...
...Igualero there was only one public phone as late as 1993. Townsfolk used their traditional whistle language to announce, "Call for you, Pedro!" Today, La Gomera remains home to about 18,000 residents, and tourism is helping to stanch emigration by those no longer able to make a living from farming or fishing. Ferries make the 40-minute trip from Tenerife, and one of the attractions, apart from a rich flora in the cloud-shrouded peaks, the highest of which is just under 1,500 m above sea level, is the chance to hear whistle-speak. When Eugenio Darias...
...write shorter documents, as the arrival of 10 new member states - taking the number of official languages from 11 to 20 - threatened to overwhelm the translation service. Texts are to be limited to 15 pages, against the current average of 32. A similar order in 2001 failed to stanch the flow of verbiage...
...export credits on the negotiating table to jump-start stalled global trade talks. The credits are sacrosanct in France, the largest recipient of such aid, and even more so to Chirac, who has made the defense of France's farmers an anchor of his political career. Chirac tried to stanch the wounds last week by issuing an unprecedented call to order to his troops in the National Assembly. "The role of majority parliamentarians is to support the government with loyalty and warn it with candor," he told a gathering of them. The professorial tone elicited a round of offended sputterings...
...medic, the wounded soldiers and their comrades began a frantic race against the clock. Buddies pressed their hands into Castro's hip wound to keep him from bleeding to death. The wound was so massive that his tourniquet was useless. He handed it to Wyatt, who needed two to stanch the blood flowing from his femoral artery. Amid the mayhem, Meinen, who had been manning a 50-cal. machine gun, noticed that he didn't have any feeling in his right foot. "It felt like it had gone to sleep on me, so I picked my foot...