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...Stader technique, a pair of metal pins is first driven through the flesh and well into each end of the fractured bone (see cut). For greater firmness the pins are driven in obliquely, as a carpenter drives a nail. Each set of pins is then locked into a pin-bar, and the two bars are bolted to a long extension rod, forming a sort of external auxiliary bone. The apparatus (weight: 2¼ Ib.) is made of a light aluminum alloy except for 1) the pins, which are stainless steel so that they will not corrode in contact with flesh...
Paul Lazzaro, playing wingback on the B eleven, also did a good job in his "round-the-end" sweeps, Lazzaro's style of play is very much like that of the tried and tested Cleo O'Donnell; smart, shiftly, hard to pin down once he gets going...
Eventually, the Germans took the hill. Upon a map at Bock's headquarters, many miles from the fighting, a pin moved. The Field Marshal's green eyes glowed. The forward dance of the pins on the map meant to him, too, that men were dying. It was a meaning that, for him and his Prussian kind, was as real as it was for all the Kochetkovs on the hills. And too much death, Bock knew, can stop the movement of the pins-it stopped them last fall when he threw his armies in costly assaults upon Moscow...
...Churchill loves fine clothes, silk underwear, cream-colored pajamas, soft linen handerkerchiefs, grey suede gloves, chimneypot hats and lounge suits with a sly pin stripe. Bit of a dandy he is, always dashing about somewhere. A year ago it was a sea trip to Newfoundland's Placentia Bay for the Atlantic Charter signing. Then two flights to Washington. Now it was the 10,000-mile trip to Egypt and Moscow. It was a relief this week to Sawyers, Churchill's pale-lashed, nimble little valet, to be back again in No. 10 Downing Street...
...Lure. For several days before the enemy turned on Hengyang, Major Tex Hill, formerly of the A.V.G., and Major John Allison of Gainesville, Fla., had launched pin-pricking attacks on Japanese outposts and circled their fields, daring them to come out and fight. Finally they did. These tactics and others, all part of a secret and tricky plan of their commander, Brigadier General Claire L. Chennault, fighting under resourceful Lieutenant General "Uncle Joe" Stilwell, finally led the Jap to get on with his bombing...