Word: stretchered
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Hughes was put on a stretcher and, since the quake had knocked out the elevators, carried down a cluttered stairwell...
...waiting. A guard was sent down to make sure that there were no onlookers. With this ritual observed, someone took off the oxygen mask so Hughes could be moved. Gordon Margulis lifted the frail seventy-year-old billionaire, as light as a child, and put him on a stretcher. He and an aide carried it to the service elevator. Margulis raced back, wrestled the huge oxygen cylinder aboard, and Hughes was put back...
...attack is lifted. They are carrying me out of the hole now--two, three, four men--quickly they are strapping me to a stretcher. My legs dangle off the sides until they realize I cannot control them. "I can't move them," I say almost in a whisper. "I can't move them" ...Men are screaming all around me. "Oh God get me out of here!" "Please help!" they scream...We are moving slowly through the water, the Amtrac rocking back and forth. We cannot be brave anymore, there is no reason. It means nothing...
...forbidden 20th-floor penthouse, which elevators could reach only if summoned by a special key. Peering unseen through an open panel in the ceiling, he watched in fascination as a drama unfolded in the car below. Anxious aides and a doctor wheeled in a stretcher bearing an old, apparently unconscious man covered only by a yellow sheet. A tube dangling from one of his arms connected him, presumably, to a dialysis machine...
...when the crowds parted ten minutes later, Pele was left sprawled on the ground, shaken up and with a sprained ankle. He was carried from the arena on a stretcher and Eusebio retreated to the dressing room soon after to avoid a similar fate...