Word: litters
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...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...
Scribner waited until his South Korean litter bearers had loaded the man they had just brought up onto a jeep. He shook himself, said, "Come on, characters," and started down into the valley and up the bloody ridge again...
...last of the wounded were coming out of the valley as the new wave got ready to jump off for the ridge with no name. General Craig came down from the edge of the bean patch and watched the last litters. Finally he walked to a litter going by and touched a badly wounded boy on the shoulder...
...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...