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...became quiet. Medical corpsmen, leading stretcher-bearing teams of brave and unflinching South Koreans, began to cross the valley to pick up the wounded. They carried the wounded through the valley at the foot of the ridge and up a narrow trail to an aid station just beyond the bean fields where General Craig sat sweeping the height with his field glasses. I sat there beside him, wondering if the stream of litter bearers would ever stop coming up out of that damned valley...
...last of the wounded were coming out of the valley as the new wave got ready to jump off for the ridge with no name. General Craig came down from the edge of the bean patch and watched the last litters. Finally he walked to a litter going by and touched a badly wounded boy on the shoulder...
...their dying communications system, would have little cause for complaint. He was asking permission to charge one-party business subscribers only $4.50 a month (up from $3), and party-line residential subscribers only $1.75 (instead of $1.50), with a distance surcharge for maintaining those miles of poles running to Bean Station and Joppa...
...study a menu card which offers a wide selection of chemical concoctions made from substances utterly foreign to the milk-giving cow. For as little (or as much) as one shilling ninepence, the determined pleasure seeker may numb his insides with a 'frosted chocolate snowball' (frozen soya bean flour with mock cocoa gravy), a 'Hollywood Delight' (cold soya stew with ice vegetable jam), a 'Moo-moo Special' (mixed leftovers studded with damaged grapes) or a dollop of 'Stratosphere Kisses' (soya bean sludge and near nougat). A specialty of the maison...
...Yankee migration paralleled the story of the opening of the West. Although farmers were the first to go, droves of lawyers and schoolteachers followed close on their heels. Though not in the majority in many of the new towns of the West, they wielded a temperance-preaching, baked-bean-eating, school-loving influence out of all proportion to their numbers...