Word: littering
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...boots and raincoats. Yet we always seemed to be cold. More than once we had to sleep on the wet, cold earth in our clothes. That was pretty uncomfortable, but looking at the suffering infantrymen and the supply carriers who had to take loads up steep mountains and the litter carriers who had to.bear the wounded down, we could not feel very...
Slow Scrap. After the choice pieces were culled, the remaining litter of battle was trucked to dumps. Flame-twisted tank fragments, broken rifles, smashed helmets are worthless except as scrap for the steel furnaces of U.S. and Britain. Most of this junk of battle may stay where it is in the scrap piles of Tunisia: few home-bound ships can spare the extra days to load...
...last. But in a hungry world, in a nation that for the first time in its history faced the specter of hunger, few events in the U.S. last week were of more importance than the humble birth of sow No. ID'S two-pound pig. (Her litter: eight.)* By so much had the nation's meat supply been increased, by so much had the Battle of Food been...
...within 10,000 yards of the firing line. But the jungle portables have evolved into something else: they creep up to within 750 yards of the battle line, expand their capacity by making use of rude huts of native grass, do their work only 30 or 40 minutes by litter from the spots where men are wounded...
Down the tracks occasionally come a few Jap prisoners. A litter-borne Japanese captain, with bloody shoulder wounds swathed in bandages and with his ornate ceremonial sword still buckled to his belt, jolts by. Americans and Australians look curiously, the natives with hatred, at the captured. Japs. Once an American sergeant gave a canteen of water to a native carrier to a take over to a scraggy Jap. The native looked contemptuously at the prisoner, threw the canteen on the ground and spat: "Me no give water Japanese...