Word: stretchered
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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They have a way of reaching for the sort of comparison that Mark Twain called a "stretcher." The most extreme current stretchers: U.S. involvement in Angola's civil strife is the country's gravest foreign intervention since Viet Nam (which, considering the difference in magnitude in the two situations, is misleading); the current recession is the worst since the Great Depression (which takes no account of how much worse the Depression was or of economic cushions built in since the 1930s...
...worst snowstorm since . . . and so on. Only last week, Washington Post Columnist George Will described Ronald Reagan as "arguably the most gifted campaigner since Theodore Roosevelt" - which, arguably, is the most outlandish judgment since . . . stretcher, anyone...
Critics of the single-bullet theory also dwell on the relatively undamaged condition of the bullet recovered near Connally's stretcher at Parkland Hospital. They marvel sarcastically at all of the wounds this bullet is supposed to have inflicted, while remaining so "pristine." The bullet is only slightly flattened at its rear, with a mere 2 to 2.5 grains of its soft lead core missing...
...McInally-- McInally still doesn't know who it was, although he has seen the vide tape replay--and made the stop. The impact broke McInally's leg, but he fell into the end zone for the touchdown; and later, after he was carried off the field on a stretcher, he would tell reporters that the experience had been a great thrill. To score a touchdown against the Pittsburgh Steelers! A Harvard split...
...know I can walk and I want to see my car," the driver insisted as ambulance attendants tried to coax him onto a stretcher...