Word: litters
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...great hurricane of 1938 had burst upon the coast almost without warning, killed 500 people, and left a half-billion dollar litter of wreckage behind. But the meteorologists of 1944 had sharpened their science in war, and the radio and the press had forewarned people in the hurricane's path...
...been up with them. I have seen much small-arms fire, and at times when the riflemen were pinned down by machine-gun fire, the other aid men and I have left our slit trenches to give aid to our wounded buddies. At the same time we saw our litter bearers risking their lives trying to evacuate the casualties from the field. Several of us were awarded the Bronze Star for heroism in combat...
When they finally laid him tenderly onto the canvas litter and straightened his left leg you could see the tendons relax and his facial muscles subside, and he gave a long half-groan, half-sigh of relief...
That's what I want to get back to ... that world back home where a fellow can give the sort of welcome he ought to give to a litter of setter pups in the spring. To watch them grow up with all the other new, young things in a world that's bright and free. . . . Your loving son, Bill." In Normandy the ad caught the eye of an insulted soldier writer for a service paper called Le Tomahawk, who raised a tomahawk and went to work...
...ditch and fixed that tank good and proper, and also the burp-gun and the Boche infantry, and we will get this here war over, Mom, just as soon as we can for you and Dad and old Bess, and a better, brighter world for that little unborn litter. Your loving son, Henry...