Word: coverer
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Then, I got gassed at the Wheatfields. Phosgene. The damn Wheatfields. We didn't have any air cover or artillery support. That's when a lot got it. Crawling out in the open." He turns his head and squints. "Gas?" he says. "Well, they used the phosgene, what I got; and chlorine; and the mustard gas shells mixed in with the regular barrage. You could tell when one hit, because it only made a kind of pouff! and then you'd see a mushroom spreading along the ground, like that smoke over there. Only there wasn't anywhere...
Because Bobby's blood made a stain on the soft green wall-to-wall carpet, Diana dashed into his bedroom for a quilt to cover his body. Then, rifle loaded for the next shot of planned mercy, she sat down and waited until her mother drove up half an hour later and started up the walk. "I saw then that there was no way I could shoot her without her seeing me, and I didn't want her to see me shoot her, so I yelled at her not to come in the house. I didn...
...came over to me and said, 'What's the matter with you? You must be joking.' I told her no, it was true. She pulled the cover off and started trying to clean his face and blew air from her mouth into his mouth and said that he was warm and that she knew he was still alive. She was crying, and said she didn't know what had gotten into me. She asked me if we had had a fuss about anything, and I told her no. She said she didn't know what...
...Sabre jets were flying cover for reconnaissance planes one morning, three swarms of MIG-17s buzzed in from the north, south and east, tried to box the Nationalists against the mainland. The Sabre jets were outnumbered, 100 to 32. But in a stop-and-go, five-hour battle that extended along a 400-mile arc along the coast (and 50 miles inland), the Sabres danced a jig around the MIGs. When the Nationalist pilots rolled back to Taipei to be saluted with firecrackers and garlanded with flowers, the scorecard read: ten MIGs downed, at least three others crippled. Nationalist losses...
...area looked like a valley of the moon. You feel appallingly naked as you drive along this lonely shore-watched by the tense eyes of Nationalist soldiers dug into their caves and by Communist eyes, natural and radar, on the mainland only a few miles away. There is no cover here...