Word: stretchered
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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Around 1:00 a.m., an ambulance rolled onto the grass past Memorial Church to the Canaday courtyard, breaking the silence of the night with flashing lights and shouted commands. Two weary-looking Harvard University policemen loaded a still figure onto a stretcher while their colleagues kept an eye on the gathering crowd. The ambulance doors slammed shut, its idling motor fired up and it departed—only to be replaced in short order by another...
...slant look like rocket science. I took the field with middle-aged men who had children and regular jobs, a crazy eighteen-year-old linebacker who’d already suffered six concussions (apparently he once broke his helmet, got knocked out, was carted off the field in a stretcher, and then ran back on the field, strapped on his badly broken helmet, and kept playing, again suffering another concussion and losing the ability to walk for six months) and a 5’8”, 320-pound center who brought his gorgeous blond boyfriend to every team social...
...eerie ability to avoid being tackled. In the Holy Cross game, Edwards managed to turn an under-thrown pass from Fitzpatrick into a dizzying whirl of twice-beaten defenders. When a Crusader cornerback attempted to quell the Edwards insurrection, he ended up being carried off the field on a stretcher while the Harvard junior cruised to a 42-yard gain on the play. Fitzpatrick called the game Edwards’ “coming-out party.” But the celebration didn’t end in Worcester. In the Crimson’s 28-20 upset of then...
...road above the bluffs in the vicinity south of Vierville. I got an ambulance to stop by firing [in its direction], and it stopped, and two men came out and asked if I could sit up in the ambulance. [Later] they took me out and put me in a stretcher, and I saw a huge statue. I think later on, in retrospect, it was a church near the beach, silhouetted in the darkness. The next morning I saw the German prisoners marching by me. The 175th Infantry Regiment apparently landed around that time, and German snipers opened...
...MAXx is not just another plastic backboard,” he tells anyone who will listen, chanting the slogan printed on the display behind him. He designed the floating stretcher himself, he explains, to be entirely resistant to pathogens in the case of a biological cataclysm...