Word: wristed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...returned to the U.S., not unaware of the fame he had attained but unready for its demands. The people of Albuquerque gave him a $500 wrist watch. Paulette Goddard, Olivia de Havilland and Jinx Falkenburg kissed him, all in one afternoon. Two universities gave him honorary degrees. Admirers sent him apples, pecans, a cowboy belt, a jeep. He won a Pulitzer Prize, and the first Raymond Clapper Memorial Award for war correspondence. His collected G.I. columns, Here Is Your War, sold over a million copies; a second collection, Brave Men, sold 875,000. Hollywood made a movie (soon...
Foolish Notion. In Seattle, Eric Mackey slashed his left wrist, drank down a bottle of disinfectant, jumped seven stories from a hotel room, had his plunge broken by a jutting marquee. At the local hospital he commented: "Kind of foolish thing to do. I could have killed myself...
...replacement, he had been grievously wounded in his first action-a shell fragment had sheared off his left arm just below the shoulder. But the kid wanted no sympathy. He wanted something more specific: "One of you guys go back and find my arm. There's a wrist watch on it I want to keep...
When a policeman came into the bar, Otto Wilson was talking to another woman. The policeman came up behind him, looked at his cut hand, clapped a handcuff on his wrist...
...grabbed a towel and twisted it around his leg for a tourniquet. Gunn was magnificent in spite of the terrible wounds he had suffered. He sat partly up and watched me get the towel adjusted, and even held it himself for a while. Clete Roberts ignored an injured wrist and started out to find a doctor and ambulance...