Word: stretcher
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...only player who had a 'chance of doing any open field running in the rain and mud at New Haven last week. As soon as he got in the game he intercepted a pass, but Army tacklers roughed him so thoroughly that he left immediately on a stretcher. The rest of the game was a dull pushing contest between two good lines, with the Army line better but not good enough to do the trick. Yale 7, Army...
...then comes one that should be read. The Cross Bearers is one to read. Though far from being a record of unrelieved horrors, it shows war's seamiest side, and with open seams. It is a story of a German medical corps. Author Frey. onetime stretcher -bearer, Red -Cross-wearer, knows whereof he writes...
Private Funk, pacifist at heart in the heart of a nation under arms, elects to be a stretcher-bearer and as such is sent to the Western Front. But he is physically unable to do the work, is transferred to the dressing station behind the lines. Here he makes himself indispensable, soon is more useful than the surgeon. A writer in peacetime, he knows nothing of medicine, learns gradually how little can be done to help the wounded, even before the medical supplies begin to give out. before they have to use paper bandages, the same dressings over and over...
Sassoon writes quietly, with an effect of naivete that often cloaks irony. The naivete is superficial, the irony fundamental. When he was brought back to London after being wounded, his stretcher was taken off the train at Charing Cross Station, where "a woman handed me a bunch of flowers and a leaflet by the Bishop of London who earnestly advised me to lead a clean life and attend Holy Communion...
...witness a mass-beating went Chicago Daily News's by no means squeamish Correspondent Negley Parson. He noted that the first Gandhites to appear were ambulance men, stretcher bearers with red crosses on their arms. Next came the demonstrators for Independence, thousands of Hindus, scores of Sikhs. Then the police charged. All the Hindus seemed frightened-as well they might, being completely unarmed, knowing they would be beaten blue and blacker by police lathi (sticks)-but only a handful of the Hindus broke and ran, while not a Sikh stirred. Women, whom the police were ordered not to strike...