Word: stretchers
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...awakening came on the hilly terrain of the so-called Bambata Rebellion, where as a passionate British patriot, he led his Indian stretcher-bearer corps to serve the Empire, but British brutality against the Zulus roused his soul against violence as nothing had done before. He determined, on that battlefield, to wrest himself of all material attachments and devote himself completely and totally to eliminating violence and serving humanity. The sight of wounded and whipped Zulus, mercilessly abandoned by their British persecutors, so appalled him that he turned full circle from his admiration for all things British to celebrating...
When the police and medics got to the scene, I was only dimly aware of them. I have a confused memory of being cut from the twisted metal with a huge pair of yellow hydraulic shears, the so-called Jaws of Life, and laid on a stretcher. As they were loading me into the ambulance, Danny O'Sullivan's face swam into focus, looking down at me. "You'd have to be the toughest old bastard I know," he said encouragingly. Give me a break, I said. You used to be in the SAS; you know plenty tougher than...
...because we know he could have made it," Angela Sanders, the daughter of slain teacher William "Dave" Sanders, said in a television appearance earlier this week. The students who showed Sanders pictures of his family as he lay dying wanted to carry the teacher out on a makeshift stretcher; police said no, and by the time paramedics reached him hours later, Sanders was beyond help. Criticism has centered on the first half hour of the rampage, and whether the SWAT team did enough to stop the carnage and contain the teenage killers. Doubters have included a fellow Colorado police officer...
...made it off the stage and started crying--excruciating pain," Resnicoff said. She left the theater on a stretcher for Mt. Auburn Hospital, while the sound operator, Joshua A. Edelman '00, told the audience that the show would...
That is one reason it has been possible for hospitals to reach a point of crisis without most of us knowing how it happened. When your child is lying on a stretcher, or your spouse is worrying about a lump, there is no time to learn about how these places work. You just want them to take care of you. One of the great democratic privileges of American society is the premise that all people have a right to the best possible care, regardless of whether they have the means to pay for it; the law requires hospitals to treat...