Word: stretchers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Carl Bottenfield, injured in the fourth period Saturday in New Haven and taken off the field on a stretcher, returned to Cambridge yesterday morning and is now resting comfortably in him Kirkland House room...
...unknown young painter in Paris, Fernand Léger made his living retouching photographs, but he grew heartily sick of the fuzzy grey pictures he had to pretty up. A stretcher-bearer in World War I, he found a sort of solace in looking at cannons, planes and tanks. The milder beauties of nature were not for him, he decided. What he wanted his paintings to rival was the harsh power and blank precision of modern machinery...
...second play of the game, Michigan's spinning fullback gave the ball to a halfback who smacked Army's line for two yards. When the players unpiled, blond, 188-lb. Chuck Ortmann, Michigan's passing ace, was lugged off on a stretcher. That was the first omen of calamity. Then it seemed as though the big stadium had begun falling...
...time for the vote neared, Oregon's Wayne Morse, his back severely wrenched in a racing accident, was carried into the Capitol on a stretcher and appeared in the Senate in a wheelchair to cast his vote for the bill. The Administration was rallying every last supporter. In the end, George's proposed $500 million cut was defeated by a comfortable margin...
Congress has not complained since. The Senators' traditional snuffboxes and sand-shakers are filled without fail. Bills and documents are promptly distributed, errands are run lickety-split. (New pages are still sent on a fool's errand to find a "bill-stretcher...