Word: stretchered
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Profile. Chou survived the Long March only by being carried for much of the last 1,000 miles on a stretcher. Later, during the fragile Kuomin-tang-Communist cease-fire of the war years, he served-with new Defense Minister Yeh Chien-ying as his deputy-as Communist liaison in China's wartime capital of Chungking. After the Communist seizure of power in 1949, Chou began building the state bureaucracy, traveling abroad, officiating at countless party meetings, mass organizations and the State Council. Most important for his survival, he knew how to maintain a low profile whenever Mao swung...
...lollipop, Marvin made for the newsroom, hurled a typewriter through a partition, stomped on file cabinets and tore out acoustic tile so that he could swing on the steel beams above. His $2,700 rampage was finally stopped by a blowgun tranquilizer, and Marvin departed handcuffed to a stretcher. Said a shaken Douglas, hurriedly taking off his ape makeup: "You never know when they're going to revert...
...Maui was where he chose to die and be buried. When doctors at Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center in New York told him last month that he had only days to live, Lindbergh, confined to a stretcher, had himself flown to Maui, where he arranged the details of his funeral and burial as meticulously as he had planned his flight to Paris 47 years before. Following his instructions, he was buried within eight hours after his death. Hawaiian cowboys crafted a roughhewn casket of eucalyptus wood, and a grave was quickly dug atop a cliff overlooking the Pacific. His body...
...girl woke up, and I hit her on the top of the head with a pistol." After Petacque interviewed Rugendorf, he arranged for him to be questioned by state police investigators. Early this year, Rugendorf, near death from heart disease and diabetes, again fingered Hohimer, this time from a stretcher in a courtroom where he was a defense witness in the robbery trial of another gang figure. Attempting to discredit some of Hohimer's testimony against him, Rugendorf asked the judge to come close to the stretcher and whispered to him: "Hohimer is the fellow that killed Percy...
Twenty penalties were called during the contest, 11 on Harvard and nine on Clarkson. Clarkson defenseman Dave Cooper hit sophomore Dan Bolduc with his stick in the mouth and eye near the game's end, and Bolduc had to be carried off the ice on a stretcher. Thomas moved up to the first line left-wing position to take Bolduc's place...