Word: tourniquets
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...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...
...wife and her parents. As he pretended to kill old Pietro, he turned his knife aside in traditional opera style, accidentally slashed Basso Joseph Sterzini between the thumb and forefinger. Sterzini pooh-poohed his wound, wanted to finish the scene. Tibbett, his friend for 15 years, had a tourniquet applied and sent for Joseph Siegel, the Metropolitan's doctor. Dr. Siegel found that an artery had been cut and sent Sterzini to the hospital. There, five hours later, Basso Joseph Sterzini died. Hospital authorities said: "Shock resulting from the stab wound . . . may have affected an already diseased heart...
...Besides, remember that those whom the gods destroy they first make mad, and note the terrible coincidence by which Barthou began to run after he was wounded and then a distraught officer placed the tourniquet below instead of above the wound...