Word: stretcher
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Curb Service. In Osaka, Japan, to help along a safety campaign, some 40 housewives formed a stretcher corps to haul fallen tipplers out of traffic danger...
...like a sidewalk drunk, feet reaching blindly, body jerking from side to side, arms flopping in grotesque rhythm. For three laps, he kept on, then fell. Before anyone could reach him, he was up again, shambling forward, dazed. He fell again, and was carried from the field on a stretcher. In quick succession, Russia's Hubert Pyarnakivi and the U.S.'s Max Truex managed to finish, and then they too went into that eerie dance of exhaustion. Both Americans were rushed to the University of Pennsylvania Hospital, the Russian to his hotel room, and all three were given...
...locked in his room. There was talk that he threw empty bottles through his window that night, and broke his bedstead. Finally, at week's end, he permitted a doctor to give him a sedative, and then, early one morning, he was carried on a stretcher into a white station wagon and driven to the airport for the trip to the Galveston hospital.* On the way, in his National Guard plane, Long once again erupted, demanded that the plane be turned back to Baton Rouge. Refused, he "busted" the accompanying Louisiana adjutant general to private, and "promoted" the pilot...
...Steel microphone stands whipped at Ali's face, a desk panel struck him full on the head, and he went down in a pool of blood. After steel-helmeted cops arrived to break up the melee, sergeants-at-arms bore Mr. Speaker off to a hospital on a stretcher. He died two days later, the first presiding officer of any parliament in the history of the British Commonwealth to perish of injuries received while occupying the chair...
...come or gone. The Nimers were conscious but in pain. One policeman tried to raise Melvin's head from the kitchen floor; gently, Melvin ordered him not to, and braced his feet against a wall to ease his agony. While being carried to an ambulance on a stretcher, Loujean opened her eyes. Said she to a policeman: "Please feed the baby plain milk. No formula...