Word: stitched
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Trailed only by Princeton and Pennsylvania, the Mikkolamen scored 172, placing their first man, Huna Rosenfeld, in the twentieth scoring position. John Cogan, Ray Brown, Hal May, and Charles Worth scored for the Crimson in that order. Captain Frank Gurley developed a serious stitch in the middle of the race and was able to finish only sixth among his teammates...
Family Affair. In Ottawa, Hockey Player Connie Brown accidentally flipped the puck into a crowd of 9,170, gave his father a nine-stitch cut in the face...
...Stitch in Time. In New Orleans, surgeons extracted a needle just before it pierced the heart of Mrs. Lois James, 26, who had sat on it when...
...bullet-hole in flesh, at once as intimate and as impersonal as if it were your own wound, so new you cannot yet feel it. There is a shot made through the slot of a tank of a Japanese soldier trying to evade the machine-gun bullets which stitch the ashes all around him. Bemused, almost hypnotized in his dreadful slowness, fumbling in the footless dust with much the clumsiness of a terrified rat, he half falls, at last, behind a mound. For a moment, before you think, you may hope he has made it alive; but you will never...
...recently four men with head wounds were brought to a British Army hospital in France; they could not be operated on for lack of needles & thread fine enough to stitch severed nerves together. Lieut. William Such, who used to repair miniature watches for a living, soon contrived the needles, but a thread substitute was something else again. The hair of all the nurses except one was found too fine-and that one was a blonde (black hair, easy to see, had to be used in so delicate an operation...