Word: stitched
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Said Plastic Surgeon Robert H. Ivy of Philadelphia, who was an Army surgeon in World War I: "Many times in the closure of a cut on the face, very coarse, deep sutures [stitches] including the skin and deeper tissues have been placed with a heavy needle. These later leave broad scars." (The proper method is to stitch the lower layer of a wound, then fasten the skin edges together with a fine thread...
Rise in Demand. It was a stitch in time. No army is any better than its officers, and Pearl Harbor found the U.S. Army faced with a demand for scores of thousands of officers. To officer the first outfits sent overseas other units were stripped. Training suffered...
...Concentrate heat in small areas even deep within the insides of larger objects-to bake, dry, glue, stitch, anneal, weld, rivet...
Ether fumes eddied through the crowded wardroom. The patient grimaced. "More ether," said Lipes. Two hours and a half after the operation started, Lipes took the last catgut stitch. At that moment the ether gave...
...trite and simple, but what keeps them waiting in line at the Met is the hilarious dialogue which both rolls 'em in the aisles and keeps them chuckling the morning after. The acting throughout the picture is superb with Ginger playing her three-faced part without dropping a stitch and the pseudo-sophisticated cadets, just Sue-Sue's age, throw a line at Ginger which would shame anything around the Square for pure brass and military strategy. Benchley's all too short appearance packs into a few shots what some comedians needs a lifetime to get across...