Word: legging
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...spending their holidays in far places this year. Robert Sherrod was back from Tarawa for Christmas at home with his wife and two sons. Jack Belden, veteran of the wars in China, Burma, North Africa, Sicily and Italy, celebrated Christmas Day in a New York hospital, recuperating from the leg wound he got at Salerno (this was his first Christmas in his own country in ten years). But I guess the TIME & LIFE people an American Christmas meant most to this year were Carl and Shelley Mydans-back in the U.S via the Gripsholm after two years as prisoners...
Death or injury by poison gas is horrible. But it is also horrible to have a leg or face blown away by a high-explosive shell, to be buried alive by a bomb, to be instantly charred by the machine-gun-melting heat of a flamethrower, or to be impaled by a bayonet...
Farmer François Theron hates baboons. Some 1 ,000 of the big monkeys live on his sheep farm in South Africa's Cape province. Says he: "They'll rip off a sheep's leg for breakfast and leave the animal...
Afternoon in Jersey. "Twilight came early. Lights were turned on as the train raced smoothly southward through New Jersey. . . . The soldiers stared at the whizzing landscape, at bright-paned homes merging with descending dark. . . . They dreamed on it with hungry eyes. One lad not more than 21, his leg amputated, told the soldier across the aisle: 'Even the dump piles look swell.' The other soldier nodded: 'You ain't kiddin...
Designed for paratroops, amphibians and assault infantry, the new mask is lighter, easier to use and carry. The carrier may be worn in several positions-even strapped to the leg, in hot climates where soldiers may be naked to the waist...