Word: dirt
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...tonight as he gets into bed." Junior could probably do the trick all right. A little practice and an understanding of the situation might save the life of a small boy born into the Atomic Age. The treatise-explained how: "Junior will feel the wind go by, the dirt and pebbles blown with hurricane force against his head . . . A few cuts on the arms and legs aren't important. His playmates, standing upright, will be blown over like matchsticks. Some may get concussion, some broken bones...
...roared down toward the first tank, a Russian-made T-34, and Loranger laid a 500-lb. fragmentation bomb right behind her. The tank was engulfed in smoke and dirt. Ensign Profilet's plane followed with another 500-pounder. Just to make sure, Loranger clobbered her with a third bomb and we went after the truck. On his first run, Loranger came down with his cannon wide open, then pulled out of his dive and laid a bomb right in the truck bed. As we pulled up, we discovered he had not only disintegrated the truck but had also...
...Company D, 1st Battalion, 19th Infantry Regiment, was awakened from the sleep of the exhausted by the zing of Communist bullets over his foxhole. For an hour before, confident Communist infantrymen, their conical Russian helmets sticking up like mushrooms through the early morning mist, had marched along a steep dirt road to a mountain pass commanding the U.S. positions. Wakeful U.S. sentries heard the Reds singing snatches of Communist marching songs as they pulled an aged, creaking, Russian heavy machine gun up the steepening slope...
Eight years ago Poolad was digging a well at Zahedan, in southeastern Iran. The well caved in. "For two hours," Poolad remembered, "all the mud and dirt crushed down upon me and I stood, back bent, holding it. Something broke inside my back. Since then I walk with a stick. My back and legs hurt very much. I stoop. Before I was hurt, I was taller by four or five inches. I sold my land and my cattle. Now I live on charity, I who ran faster than the camels...
...Rest. After the corpsmen who travel with the foot soldiers pick up the wounded, casualties are moved in stages by litter jeep, ambulance and train or plane to a rear field hospital. In gravely critical cases I have seen pilots bring tiny L-5 planes down on dirt roads or cleared fields to carry out one litter case...