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...driver to fetch an 83-year-old woman who had broken her hip. The inexperienced, and for the most part unsuccessful driver dashed wildly about the streets of Boston. When they finally arrived at the correct street, by trial and error, they encountered difficulties in removing the heavy, wheeled stretcher from its intricate moorings on the floor of the ambulance, and in twisting it up two flights of tortuously curved Victorian steps. After they accomplished the ticklish task of lifting the old lady to the stretcher and carrying her down, she added much to their woe, when nearing the hospital...
...stretcher," advertised as giving 100 extra cups if added to a pound of tea, is 90% bicarbonate of soda...
Then the sirens shrieked. "The stretcher party began to carry the body down from the mound. There was a heavy thump as a big bomb fell somewhere...
...began to toy with her Pablum mash. Gradually she sickened, by last week was having convulsions. One day police sirens screamed from The Bronx to Manhattan's Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center ahead of a zoo station wagon. Pandora, quieted by nembutal, was lifted in a stretcher, borne into the famed Neurological Institute, whisked to the tenth-floor X-ray room...
Occasion of the drive is the first authorized Catholic English-language revision of Holy Writ since 1749, a simplified text which omits inverted phrases and archaic word forms, changes "tidings" to "news," "concupiscence" to "lust," "wilderness" to "desert," "bier" to "stretcher." Even the words of the sign of the cross, with which every Roman Catholic begins and ends his prayers, have been changed-the Holy Ghost is now called the Holy Spirit. Typical modernization: Matthew XIll's reference to Christ's miracle-working powers from "Whence therefore hath he all these things," to "Then where...