Word: stitched
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...hold the Dutch East Indies, the U.S. Navy last week told the story in detail. Its narrator was six-foot, whip-lean Commander Paul Hopkins Talbot, leader of the squadron of four 1917-model destroyers that needled the convoy again & again & again, and got away without dropping a stitch...
...every student's desk at Edgewood hangs a brand-new gas mask, product of a factory on the reservation where 2,000 women workers hem, stitch and vulcanize masks for the expanding Army. The masks hang in the classroom both as symbols and instruments of instruction. Edgewood's students are there to learn more than how and when to don a gas mask. Of the lethal gases they learn that chlorine, phosgene and diphosgene attack a man's lungs, are soon blown away. More deadly are mustard and lewisite, which hang in wooded areas for days...
...walls of the box, as well as the pelvis, were covered with pink silk, imitating the peritoneum, glistening lining of the abdomen. Red yarn, knitted by Dr. Van Hoosen herself, showed the pattern of abdominal muscles, Fallopian tubes, ovaries. The mouth of the uterus was knitted in a purl stitch, the body in plain stitch. Inside the womb was a rubber doll, encased in a bag of Cellophane, attached to the placenta (a dark red knitted cap) by an umbilical cord of red corrugated rubber balloons...
...burn the cities of Spain and China, Author Mumford blew up with a pop heard round the publishing world. In Men Must Act he demanded complete severance of U. S. diplomatic relations with, complete boycott of, Germany, Italy, Japan. He praised the assassination of Huey Long as a political stitch in time. When New Republicans stirred with embarrassment, but declined to get down from the left end of the liberal fence, Author Mumford loudly parted company with The New Republic...
...sewing up, begins. . . . The surgeon weaves the suture neatly around the base of the [sterilized] appendix stump so that it may be drawn closed in much the same manner you would close a tobacco sack. Next he will fold in the end of the appendix with a cross-stitch on top of it so there will be nothing left to cause trouble, such as adhesions...