Word: tourniqueted
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...Churchill remains in power "notwithstanding his incompetence because he has succeeded in dragging the United States into England's European entanglements. . . ." The British were denounced for enslaving India. But, as if taking it all back, the Hearst-papers ran a cartoon depicting Churchill's speech as the tourniquet on a British arm bleeding from wounds labeled "Nazi Fleet Escape" and "Singapore." Another cartoon pictured Uncle Sam with a gas mask labeled "Unity" while poison gas labeled "Distrust in Our Allies" swirls up from a cesspool marked "Berlin and Tokio...
...death rate in the amputation of gangrenous limbs from 83% to 18%, Drs. Frederick Madison Allen and Lyman W. Crossman of New York City's Welfare Hospital reported last week. The three-stage operation: 1) the limb's blood supply is cut off by a tourniquet; 2) it is anesthetized by cooling to just above freezing with a refrigerating coil; 3) it is amputated. The low temperature reduces post operative infection...
...sticks of dynamite wired to his engine had gone off. That "accident" and a whole bumper crop of anti-labor sluggings, shootings and gaggings made Harlan's rich coal veins throb with miners' blood. Last year, the La Follette Civil Liberties Committee tried applying a tourniquet; but bloody Harlan proved hemophilic...
...morphine which Dr. Wassermann injected into helpless Marion Garey was less to deaden pain, which the man no longer felt, than to prevent him from collapsing from shock. After giving the morphine, the doctor applied a tourniquet, cut through the flesh of the broken leg, applying hemostats to the blood vessels he severed. He had no need to saw the bones; they were broken through. Twelve minutes after the morphine injection...
...President can be taken at his word and has really set his heart on freeing the log jam in the lower tribunals, tampering with the Supreme Court is hardly the place to begin. It is like tying a tourniquet below the wound. For the Supreme Court has notably kept up to its schedule, especially in the last twenty-five years. Many cases, as Mr. Roosevelt points out have been refused review by the court. But writs of certiori have never been denied because the calendar forbade: cases have been turned down only because the court could see no probable...