Word: stretchered
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Karabakh continues, and the death toll rises. The suffering is indiscriminate, with innocent civilians afflicted as often as warriors. Last week, as rockets could be heard falling once again on Stepanakert a few miles away, a small plane landed to evacuate wounded to Yerevan, the Armenian capital. A stretcher bearing a woman in her 50s, her face scarred and swollen, was lifted aboard. She had lost both her legs to a GRAD missile the night before. Her husband, pale and exhausted, said nothing as he bent down to dab her lips with a moist cloth. After takeoff, the plane rose...
...REGARDLESS of an athlete's desire to leave or remain in his profession, the pressure brought to bear by the fans and the media make it seem almost as if he should play until he gets carried out of the stadium or arena on a stretcher. A perfect example exists right here in Boston. His name is Larry Bird...
...weeks ago, the dog suddenly collapsed and pitched down the stairs. His distraught owners, afraid to move their beloved pet themselves, called an animal ambulance (cost: $25). Minutes later the comatose canine had been placed on a stretcher and rushed off to the emergency room. There a veterinarian ordered up a battery of diagnostic tests and treatments, many of which would have been unobtainable for humans only a few years...
...thieves disguised as policemen entered Boston's Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, trussed up two guards and made off with a king's ransom: three Rembrandts, five paintings by Degas, one Manet and one of only 36 known Vermeers in existence. The Vermeer canvas was hacked from its stretcher, leaving chips of paint on the floor. At an estimated total value of $200 million, it may have been the most lucrative art theft in history...
...freestyle, and for the last leg of the concluding 400-yard freestyle relay he hopped out of the pool and dove off the blocks to kick off his own anchor leg. After the race he was lifted from the pool and whisked off to the locker room on a stretcher held by his teammates...