Word: unhurt
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...There is the strong-jawed "short-circuit beetle," for instance, that gnaws into lead cables. There are insects that live in crude petroleum. There is a clever bug (Dermatobia hominis, an invader from South America) that catches flies, lays its eggs on the flies' legs, then releases them unhurt to carry the larvae to man (where they burrow under the human skin). As Hyslop talks, bugs by the thousand that he has known and loved creep or fly winningly through his memories...
Someone tossed a bomb into the yard of Communist Thorez's house at Choisy-le-Roi. Thorez was unhurt, but his wife was cut by flying glass. Without conscious irony, Thorez remarked: "There seems to be a lack of order in the country...
...Reuben P. Snodgrass, pilot of the Flying Automobile (TIME, Nov. 4), ran out of gas over Chula Vista, Calif, and landed in a mud flat. Snodgrass was unhurt, but the newfangled contraption was wrecked...
...only escape for a wounded man was to be helped from the field by his comrades. This was a fact that able-bodied soldiers soon learned to take advantage of: a casualty who had suffered only a slight scratch was sometimes helped to the rear by seven or eight unhurt soldiers ("the Civil War version of the escape mechanism [now] known as 'psychoneurosis...
...result was probably one of the most spirited and satisfactory practices of recent weeks, and, perhaps as important, as the whole squad emerged from combat unhurt, something of a record for this fall. With Chip Gannon, Paul Lazzaro and Leo Flynn doing most of the gaining on the ground, Jim Kenary's passing made the yardage in the air for the Varsity contingent. Coaches did not risk Kenary on say hard running or blocking assignment...