Word: stretcher
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...tropical heat, the massed marchers, representing 39 Ghanaian organizations, wilted by the score; stretcher-bearers darted back and forth between the ranks lugging out casualties. The show was stolen by the antics of hundreds of marching market mammies, clad in colorful, wraparound calico dresses and gaily colored turbans. As they began to step out, the band switched from Sousa marches to jazzy, Ghanaian High Life numbers. Swinging their enormous hips in rhythm to the music, the mammies pranced, jigged and jived by the broadly smiling Queen while Prince Philip bent double and slapped his knee in laughter...
...threaded down his windpipe so that he will not choke while asleep. His eardrums are pricked so that oxygen pressure will not perforate them. Monitoring devices, including a microphone that allows the anesthesiologist to listen to respiration, are attached to the body. The patient is put on a stretcher that is placed in the oxygen chamber...
...model, fragile Jocko Conlan absorbed a regular beating. His hospital record: two broken collarbones, two broken elbows. Last fall in Baltimore, American Leaguer Larry Napp was struck by three successive pitches-one on the mask, two in the groin-and had to be carried off the field on a stretcher. The National League's Bill Jackowski has been twice hit in the throat by lined fouls...
Later, as he ordered the retreat from Blackpool, Masters was faced with the decision of what to do with 19 hopelessly wounded stretcher cases-"the first man was quite naked and a shell had removed the entire contents of his stomach . . . another seemed to have been torn in pieces by a mad giant." To avoid holding up the retreat. Masters ordered the men shot. "One by one, carbine shots exploded curtly behind me. I put my hands over my ears, but nothing could shut out the sound ... I muttered, 'I'm sorry,' and 'Forgive...
...handsome strapping (6 ft. 2½ in.), Georgia-born tenor who hit his peak in the 1940s with the Metropolitan Opera and such radio shows as The Telephone Hour; of pneumonia; in Manhattan. A practical-joking extravert who once had an ambulance deliver him to a party on a stretcher. Melton got his first job by bellowing melodically outside the locked office of Impresario Samuel L. ("Roxy") Rothafel, who unlocked the door, hired him on the spot. Almost as well known as his voice was his $250,000 collection of vintage autos, including a one-cylinder 1900 Packard...