Word: tourniqueted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...enemy fire. The gunner had a bead on a bomber and could not comply; so Roosevelt unrolled one pants leg for him. At that moment a bomb fragment removed the gunner's other leg; Roosevelt suffered a slight hand wound. Big Pancho gave the gunner morphine, applied a tourniquet, lugged him below to sick bay. Says Reynolds: His crew worship the guy. They say he's terrific in combat...
...leaned over, dripping blood on his bombsight. and let them go. An Me-109 approached. The wounded sergeant dragged himself to his gun, shot down the Messerschmitt, then picked up a camera and photographed the crash. Two other gunners gave him a shot of morphine, put a tourniquet on his leg, nursed him safely back to base...
Then followed days of fighting to take up the slack in an eight-mile line which, as it tightened, threatened to be a tourniquet for Salamaua...
...home and take something off?" One sequence required him to kiss heavily lipsticked Dorothy three times. When the make-up man brought him a mirror, Hope, who looked as if he had been attacked with a bowie knife, cried: "What a lover! Is there a tourniquet in the house...
...Good Turn In Los Angeles, friends of Charley Williams, who had a nosebleed, rushed him to a hospital with a tourniquet tight around his neck to keep him from bleeding to death...