Word: stretcher
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...August 1915, a Catholic priest serving as a lowly stretcher-bearer with a French infantry regiment was cited for displaying "the greatest self-sacrifice and contempt for danger" during a ruinous battle. But there is no mention of the honor in the cheap school notebook in which, during the same week, the priest began keeping a diary "to force myself to think, to observe, to be precise...
...heart and lungs, they drew off some of his blood and then infused only the red cells back to him over a period of several hours. Condon stayed with the patient until his condition stabilized at 7 a.m. then tried unsuccessfully to catch a catnap on a stretcher. At 8 a.m., after a three-minute breakfast of toast and coffee, he was back in the ward starting another...
Patricia Wu '78, taken by the Harvard police to UHS on a stretcher yesterday morning and in Stillman last night, said last night she had eaten just one shrimp and one scallop and became "horribly sick" early yesterday morning. Wu also said she ate around...
...army spokesman drew up a list of the dead and wounded, a stretcher passed. There was a body on it, about the size of a child, wrapped in an old yellow shawl that was now a shroud. Authorities tentatively identified it as that of an elderly Frenchwoman who had been staying at the hotel...
...during the opening of an ethnographical exhibition in the Konstmuseum at Gothenburg in Sweden, someone made off with a major Matisse, the Girl in White. It was so crudely sliced out of its frame that Matisse's signature was left dangling on a flap of canvas from the stretcher. The painting is still lost...