Word: medicant
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...walked down Mt. Auburn, we strolled right on by The Fox and the Phoenix, the Spee and the Fly. At the Pi Eta's door we dropped off an emetic To save bucks on brewskis and time with the medic. Then what to our wandering eyes should appear But a miniature sleigh with a shitload of beer. Down Molson, down Heinie, down Miller and more; Up Beckski, up Strohski, all over the floor. Watch out for that lamppost--hold tight to the wall-- Now stagger off, stagger off, stagger...
...fashioned dog tag. Saw-toothed on the edges and made of chocolate-colored plastic, it contains an embedded magnetic bit on which information about a soldier can be electronically recorded and, as needed, scanned by means of a portable microcomputer. Carrying the scanning device into the field, a medic could review a wounded soldier's complete medical history before administering drugs; a platoon leader might check out a soldier's pay or disciplinary record...
...fisherman's wily patience and a heart of puppy chow. When Stevenson departed after the third season (his character was reported killed in an airplane crash in the Sea of Japan), Harry Morgan as Colonel Sherman Potter took over. A cavalryman in the first World War who turned medic and was Regular Army to his jodhpurs, Potter became the stern but sentimental father figure every MASHman needed 7,000 miles from home. Similarly, B.J. Hunnicut was an idealistic Marin County version of Trapper John, and Winchester, however smug he might appear to be about his old-money Bostonian lineage...
...headed the Veterans Administration under Jimmy Carter, "there is probably something that says, 'Bad war, good soldier.' " Their fellow Americans are only now coming to appreciate that distinction and, as Cleland says, "separate the war from the warrior." Mike Mullings of Bethany, Okla., a medic in Viet Nam, agrees that "things are changing. It might sound corny, but people have become a little more caring. It feels pretty good...
...microphones of their radios. An Argentine antiaircraft gunner in Port Stanley described how he shot down a British Harrier: " 'Holy Mother of God'-and bang, bang, I knocked it down from heaven." A wounded 18-year-old Argentine conscript lay dying this week, but confided to the medic treating him, "I pray to God that I get better soon and go back to fight...