Word: stretchered
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Fanfare and hoopla--chorus line dancing by team members, stretcher crews carrying away exhausted competitors, and music and one-lines from the bathing suit-clad Harvard band--dominated the atmosphere at Blodgett Pool Saturday, overshadowing some fine individual swimming performances and turning a potentially dull 71-42 Crimson romp over Army into something of an interesting spectator event...
Raikula won the backstroke in 1:55.9, splashed to second behind localite Jack Guathier in the grueling 500, and then finished s respectable fourth in the breaststroke before being hauled off by his stretcher-wielding teammates...
...minutes, a tall and gawky defender named Erny Brandts tried to thwart an attack by lashing savagely at the ball in front of his own goal. He knocked it into the netting and in the bargain crippled his teammate, Goalie Pieter Schrijvers, who was carried off on a stretcher. The score was now Italy: one goal up, and Holland: one goalie down. That might have decided things; Italy is the kind of team that can hang on to a one-goal advantage till the next ice age. But in the second half Holland moved its star, Johan Neeskens, up from...
...Stretcher-bearers and emergency workers were confronted with tons of debris−steel, concrete and boards−piled 6 to 10 ft. high on the floor of the tower. "There was so much stuff on the ground you couldn't see the bodies," said Construction Worker Bill Hess. Rescuers worked frantically for six hours to pull apart the debris, but found no survivors...
...bent by the war remarks: "They talk about those 50,000 boys that were killed there, but I bet half that number would have been killed if they'd been at home, killed in automobiles." Emerson used to show people a photograph of a wounded soldier on a stretcher, touching his eyes with his hands. She writes: ''A lot of people said they had seen it all on M*A*S*H and they were reminded of how much they liked Hawkeye, how cute Radar is ..." In any case, as a judge in Tennessee observes, "people forget...