Word: litters
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Chief among the reasons for the new saving of life was the speed with which the wounded got to hospitals. As in all wars, litter bearers went in to snatch the wounded from under enemy fire (TIME, Aug. 7); usually there was a jolting ride by jeep or ambulance back from the front lines. But from that point, the Korean war was different...
After three months as a refugee in his own country, Syngman Rhee, President of the Republic of Korea, had come home to Seoul. He found his official residence littered with the midden of the routed Communist army, including back copies of the Soviet newspaper Izvestia. When the litter had been cleared away, a close inspection of the presidential mansion showed that the Russian civilians billeted there during the Communist occupation had left behind all of Rhee's most valuable and showy possessions. Mrs. Rhee had not fared so well; the Russians, headed north into the winter, had made...
...cavalcade pulled up at the Capitol, a fire-blackened, bullet-pocked shell of masonry, its rooms and offices still strewn with the enemy's litter-Russian-made helmets and burp guns, half-consumed bottles of beer and wine. There MacArthur met his friend and ally, South Korea's President Syngman Rhee, who had winged up from Pusan in the general's old plane Bataan...
...smooth, well-told story of the patrol to the Associated Press's Hal Boyle, to be sent on to his paper. By his notable lack of heroics, Reporter Churchill won back the regard of correspondents who had been offended by his toplofty manners. As he lay on a litter awaiting transportation to Japan, a G.I. asked him: "Are you really Winston Churchill's son?" Churchill eyed him coldly and snapped: "Well, I'm certainly not one of Clem Attlee's offspring...
...medical clearing station in South Korea last week, Pfc. Roy Manring, 18, of Chicago, sat up in his litter and told the colonel from the U.S. Army's judge advocate general's department about the things that had happened to him and his buddies at Hill 303. A small audience of newsmen, including TIME'S James Bell, listened to his story...