Word: litters
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Polo & Palestine. The dragon-tooth soil of Northern Ireland has farrowed a fine litter of Britain's great generals-Montgomery, Alexander, Dill, Alanbrooke, Auchinleck. It also farrowed Gerald Templer, a thin, deceptively fragile-looking, tough soldier. His father, a dedicated officer in the Royal Irish Fusiliers, had some discussion with his mother about what to call the child, but there was no discussion about his career: it was Wellington, Sandhurst, and the army. Says his mother, now in her 80s : "He always wanted to be a soldier, and I did my best to make...
...explosion flashed against the walls of Pipefitter Ed Karl's house. Karl threw aside a book he was reading, raced out of his kitchen. When he got to the scene 100-yards away, he found a pile of burning wreckage and a scattered litter of broken bodies. Inside the blazing fuselage he heard a baby wailing...
...summit with automatic-carbine fire. Chinese on the ridge replied with burp guns. Amid the brush of the slope, Marines tumbled the bulky, bleeding form of the wounded sergeant on to a poncho and labored off in the darkness, a man hauling at each corner of the improvised litter. Bright, raucous mortar bursts followed along behind them. The bursts were short and above the din they heard a cheering sound-two alarmed Chinese patrols back on the ridge were busily trying to kill each other. The Marines reached their own lines safely by dawn. But it was, they agreed...
Some 18 miles east of Seoul, the C-119 crashed against a 2,000-ft. peak. There were no survivors; the Air Force called it the "worst transport disaster" of the Korean war.* In the litter of mangled flesh and metal, search parties found some of the presents-satin slippers, a woman's wristwatch, a pair of child's pink pajamas...
...They were dropped on a hill post near Nghialo but were quickly surrounded. In a heroic, exhausting, five-day march over the high ridges, bypassing Communists in the valleys, they made their way to the Black River. They had started carrying their wounded on bamboo stretchers, but when the litter carriers had no strength left, the wounded were left to their fate. The battalion chaplain stayed behind with them...