Word: thread
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...trying to rejoin him ever since, and when my application for a commission was at first rejected by the Army, I accepted service in China as a civilian official only to make myself useful to him in the best way I could. You will understand, therefore, that a certain thread of consistency connects the various phases through which I have passed...
...Euclides da Cunha, his biographer, was as fanatical. Rebellion in the Backlands is Brazil's great classic, 476 pages of prose, thick as the jungles of Matto Grosso, through which (even in translation) a North American must hack his way blindly, barely able to make out the thread of history in the overhanging metaphors and the creeping vines of Da Cunha's philosophizing. Conselheiro's teachings soon led to open revolt, in which 6,000 Federal troops spent three months trying to advance 100 yards against a handful of the prophet's followers. Euclides da Cunha...
Tradition and Ideas. From Peter the Great, from Suvorov, who carried Russia's flag across the Alps, from Kutuzov, who beat Napoleon, the thread of traditional reverence for the cannon ran directly to Voronov. He was a product of Red training, but he took pride in being heir to Russia's rich martial tradition, and he tried to inspire his aides with this pride. He would sit for long hours bulked behind his desk -all 6 ft. 5 and 225 Ib. of him -quietly talking to his officers...
Betio Island, white and wasted at the end of a palmy green bay, was more than ever a base of war. But elsewhere in the Tarawa Atoll the sturdy brown Gilbertese had picked up again an old, familiar thread of life...
Doctors at the New Orleans Charity Hospital had found that wounds stitched together with "ordinary cotton thread" were less likely to become infected than those sutured with catgut or silk. Another advantage: cotton is not absorbed and will hold when a wound takes a long time to heal-catgut may disappear in a little over a week, especially if a wound is infected. Finally, Dr. Ochsner noted that at Charity Hospital the average cost of catgut per patient is $1.19, as against 93? for silk and only 1¼? for cotton...