Word: stretcher
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...pictures of Fitts as he was wheeled into the operating room, he noted with interest that none of the Examiners 16 photographers was on hand. Snick! went the shutter of Photographer Strock's camera and away he ran with a shot of the wounded District Attorney on a stretcher, a half-smoked cigaret in hand...
...scrap were the engine, cars, shovels. Boulders flew like buckshot with here and there a human leg or arm, some landing as much as a mile distant. When the storm had passed 55 lay dead, 201 injured. Stricken with horror, the newshawks rushed from their vantage point to become stretcher-bearers and ambulance drivers. Hundreds of weeping women surged to the mine's terraces, searched hysterically among mountains of debris for husbands and sweethearts. To begin an immediate in vestigation, the Governor of Antofagasta Province hurried to the scene, declared...
...Senate on the Farmer-Labor ticket. Three weeks ago he was allowed to go to his summer home at Gull Lake, with a tube inserted in his intestines through which he took food. Last week, suddenly taking a turn for the worse, he was put on a stretcher, flown back to Rochester in a chartered airplane. Moaning with pain in spite of opiates, he arrived comatose with a high fever. "An awfully sick man," observed his physician, ordering a blood transfusion, an intravenous injection of glucose and saline solution. At that Governor Olson perked up, began to dictate telegrams...
...Hermann Wilhelm Göring have been staging the world's most realistic fake air raids, gouging holes in the middle of German streets in which fake air bombs are planted, exploding smoke bombs to simulate gas bombs, starting controlled fires resembling those ignited by Thermite bombs,* sending stretcher-bearers to bandage "wounded" Germans and handing gas masks around the Fatherland. Therefore last week the German people were among the ripest in the world for the surprise message suddenly delivered in Berlin by Colonel Lindbergh and promptly slapped by Chancellor Hitler onto the front page of his personal newsorgan...
...been hidden behind bushes slipped up to the train. Mr. Morgan in a dark blue silk lounging robe, white flannel trousers, a white silk scarf, was wheeled to the railroad car's rear door. Four men lifted Mr. Morgan & chair to the ground. The ambulance's stretcher on wheels was ready. Mr. Morgan, his legs dangling, partially helped himself to the stretcher, partially was lifted. Soon as he arranged himself comfortably, bearers swung the stretcher into the ambulance, bounced the patient against the ambulance roof. He uttered no sound...