Word: medicant
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Chinese lurking in the shadows tried to decoy U.S. litter-bearers by calling, "Medic, medic!" but their accents were unconvincing. One medic, Pfc. Carl Francis of Versailles, Ohio, fired his carbine until he was out of ammo, then ran. Three Chinese ran after him, and one threw a grenade. It exploded close behind him, hurling him unconscious into the mud. Despite the lurking Chinese, whom they could hear chirping like crickets, another medic and a lieutenant crawled out and rescued Francis. He had four grenade fragments in his back...
...arms, more than three times as much in blood. But after 584 days the threat was repulsed, and the war was over. At Panmunjom last week, the truce talks droned on; the hills still echoed the crump of artillery, the ripple of machine-gun fire, and the hoarse cry: "Medic...
...Rhine. Leader of the team is an American captain. He has no political convictions. He spies because he's ordered to. Tiger, the second agent, is a German POW who has switched sides for better pay. But the central figure is "Happy," a sad-eyed, 19 year old medic, played by Austrian Oskar Werner. He becomes a traitor because he believes in "a life where people are free...
...controversial Desert Fox, goes behind enemy lines of World War II for a sympathetic view of a German soldier. But unlike Marshal Rommel, the new film's hero is no Nazi who turned against Hitler too late and for the wrong reasons. He is a sensitive young Luftwaffe medic (Oskar Werner) who becomes a U.S. spy out of convictions that outweigh his queasiness at being pitted momentarily against his countrymen...
...blood last week. Press, radio, television and posters carried repeated appeals for blood donors. The fact behind the flurry was that U.S. armed forces are running short of blood and plasma. "We have enough whole blood on hand for about one week of heavy fighting," said an Army medic in Tokyo...