Word: stretcher
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...four decades now, and keeps right on growing. Are antiques art? The mid-19th century farmer who carved a mold for his wife to make cookies for his little daughter's birthday would have smiled at the thought. He was an artist nonetheless, a creator of images and stretcher of imaginations in the days before TV. And unlike commercial art or entertainment, what he made had the warmth of his hands upon...
...help. At last a file of Hungarian soldiers came out of the woods. The lead man carried a mine detector. The soldiers fired a few shots to scare away the Austrians. Then, applying a tourniquet to the girl's leg, they put her on a stretcher and carried her back into Kadar's Hungary...
...afternoon of the second day, as spotter planes wheeled overhead and tear-and vomit-gas bombs popped wildly, Hong Kong's Acting Governor Edgeworth B. David at long last ordered British troops into the troubled areas, soon swept the rioters off the streets. In the debris stretcher-bearers found a shoe containing a human foot. There also were 47 dead, almost all of them rioters destroyed by the terror they had fed. Nearly a hundred stores and buildings had been sacked and burned, and a pall of the smoke of burning loot hovered over Kowloon. Governor David ordered...
...attract every particle of experience that carries a negative charge. "I am proud," the cardinal smilingly confesses. "All my life [I have] shirked nothing, ducked nothing, overcome everything." All day no rest, all night no sleep. One day an old woman is wheeled into the interrogation chamber on a stretcher: it is his mother. She will be sent to the research hospital, the doctor says, unless there is a confession. The exhausted cardinal breaks down, recovers, refuses. "I do not love my mother," he confesses bitterly. "I never have...
...revange Saturday on the young Tiger who had proclaimed too loudly that he was just that. The 'Poon editors requisitioned his tiger skin, reportedly worth $400, and sent their own man inside it out on the field at halftime. The new tiger appeared with the Band, borne on a stretcher and covered with the Princeton flag that had mysteriously disappeared from the New Jersey campus just a year...