Word: burping
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...last July, Lieut. Leon A. Gilbert, Negro company commander in the U.S. 25th Division, dug in on a hillside position near Sangju with orders to hold at all costs. From three sides, wave upon wave of enemy fire from mortars and whinnying burp guns splattered and rolled over his position. Two hours later, Lieut. Gilbert and 15 of his men were found wandering aimlessly 1,200 yards to the rear. Ordered to move up, he refused, mumbled that he had been ambushed and cut off, and that he had a wife and children to consider...
...stopped in the tunnel. At dinner time they told us we were going for chow in groups of 30. I was in the first group. They marched us up the track and made us sit in a little straw. Then I watched the guard throw the safety on his burp gun. I thought he was just doing it to scare us. But when he started firing I fell over and played dead. I prayed too. In the confusion I ran across a field. In the field I picked up four radishes. I jumped into another gully and stayed there, eating...
...cavalcade pulled up at the Capitol, a fire-blackened, bullet-pocked shell of masonry, its rooms and offices still strewn with the enemy's litter-Russian-made helmets and burp guns, half-consumed bottles of beer and wine. There MacArthur met his friend and ally, South Korea's President Syngman Rhee, who had winged up from Pusan in the general's old plane Bataan...
Said Manring: "They come up and stick their burp guns in our stomachs with one hand and with the other they reached out like to shake hands, but they grabbed our rifles. One jerked on mine and I jerked back. Then he jerked again. I said to myself, 'This ain't no time to argue,' and let go. They stripped us down and took our helmets. They took my watch and billfold that had $11.81 in it. My girl's picture was in it, too. They took that out and looked at it and kept...
...ditch. There was 20 of them on this side of us, and 20 over here. I heard the Reds' weapons going off and I heard our boys groaning and grunting. I said to myself: 'Please, Lord, don't let 'em get us with these burp guns...