Word: stitch
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Taranto, Italy, 28-year-old Battista Rocca walked out to take the air on the town's main street. Promenader Rocca had a furled umbrella crooked over his arm, and not a stitch besides. To the horrified policemen who arrested him, he explained with dignity: "I'm Mr. Chamberlain...
Scoop, his latest, is Caldwell in character, Wodehouse in plot. Mrs. Algernon Stitch, to help her novelist friend. John Boot, sang his praises, asked powerful, shirt-stuffed Publisher Lord Copper why he did not send Boot to cover the war in Ishmaelia. Lord Copper had never heard of Boot, did not want to admit it, told his foreign editor to get Boot at all costs. The editor made a natural mistake. He shipped William Boot, a quiet, untraveled, eccentric nature columnist on Lord Copper's newspaper, to Ishmaelia. There the wrong Boot found many correspondents...
...binders for bulging arteries. He discovered safe ways of operating in cavities of the chest and sure ways of testing for blocked circulation in fingers and toes. Probably his boldest procedure (the Matas Operation) is to slit the paper-thin wall of an artery which is about to burst, stitch the walls together like a seamstress taking in a pleat, and leaving the artery with a normal size bore. Last week's was the most recent of many honors for Dr. Matas...
...telescope. swallowed into the stomach, or received into the colon. By means of special nippers he can snip out a piece of suspect tissue from an internal organ, immediately seal the wound with an electric current. After inspection, Dr. Ruddock closes the hole in the abdomen with a single stitch. Others simply use adhesive tape...
...summer, Dave Kerr works for a Toronto stockbroker, plays tennis and handball to keep in trim. In a sport which batters and bruises players so badly that the average hockey player is forced to retire after five years, he is outstanding. Only one stitch has been taken in his anatomy in the past four years. Famed Ching Johnson in twelve seasons of big-league hockey has had bones broken in 27 different parts of his body. Even more outstanding may be the records Dave Kerr establishes by the time he is Ching Johnson...