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...leave the banks of the river the ground war suddenly becomes very grim drama. Down muddy, green-walled tracks stagger wounded men, the blood still running from beneath grimy bandages, their green uniforms stained grey with mud, their faces lined, insect-bitten, haggard, sometimes fever-yellowed. Men with torn limbs lie, eyes closed, on crude log stretchers, borne on the muscled shoulders of kindly, perpetually plodding, splayfooted natives. A native walks beside each man, holding a huge green banana leaf to keep the burning sun from the head of the soldier, who has found that the war learned...
...sundown (5 p.m.) on the first day out we reached the former no man's land at El Alamein. The entire western half of the area was littered with German and Italian guns and shells, helmets, clothing, food, maps and other things, smashed and torn by the Aussies as they crashed through. All about were black, well-made "Jerry cans" (for fuel), a dozen of which we collected and filled with water when we learned that the Nazis had oiled many of the wells farther west. Old tins of British-made "Kiwi" shoe polish lay side by side with...
During the last 50 years doctors have found it almost impossible to repair nerves which have been cut, especially when a section of nerve has been torn away. Chief difficulty has been to bind the severed nerve ends or grafts together: even the finest needles and threads (e.g., blood vessel sutures) lacerate the nerve bundles. Researchers at Oxford in 1940 discarded stitching and used a glue made of chick plasma to bind severed nerves together...
...burning of Richmond (1865) for the Saunders Station Post Office, Binford submitted a preliminary sketch nicely calculated to lose him the job. His rough drawing showed a street scene jammed with looters, a mother trying to escape with her baby over prone bodies, a half-naked woman who has torn off her blouse to prevent herself from being scorched, a horseman riding roughshod over...
...gentleman should be "Grave, Settled and attentive," should refrain from swatting "Fleas, lice, ticks &c in the Sight of Others." A gentleman should not run, dawdle, or walk with his mouth open, shaking his arms and kicking his feet "in a Dancing fashion." Clothes should not be "foul, unript [torn] or Dusty," hands should not be put "to any Part of the Body, not usually Discovered...