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Crank became a fixture at outdoor gigs at P Street Beach and in clubs such as Emergency and My Mother’s Place, where they alternated with Roy Buchanan and the Snake Stretchers as the house band.

From Washington Post • Nov. 30, 2022

Stretchers were lined up in the front room.

From The New Yorker • Jan. 29, 2017

Stretchers holding patients have been lined up like train cars around the nursing station and double-parked in front of stretcher bays.

From New York Times • Dec. 4, 2012

Stretchers were set up in rows outside, as if at an emergency medical center in a battle zone, while volunteers with megaphones shouted instructions to the drivers.

From Time Magazine Archive

Stretchers and wheelchairs were beached here and there against the hissing, knocking pipes that ran and branched in an intricate nervous system along the glittering walls.

From "The Bell Jar" by Sylvia Plath