Word: ponchoed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Andean's house is stone or adobe, with a thatched roof. He sleeps on llama skins, and has no more sanitary conveniences than his llamas. He usually wears shirt, coat, knee-length pants, sandals made from old automobile tires, a poncho and a chullo (wool headgear with flaps, like a skater's cap). All these his wife makes for him. She also bears him children; the altitude, which often makes newcomers from the coast temporarily sterile, seems to have no such effect on highlanders...
...that time mortar and artillery shells were dropping on the slender beachhead every 30 seconds. Colonel Crowe covered his chest wound with his poncho, covered his face with his helmet. A shell fragment tore through the poncho, pierced his chest in two more places. Five other fragments hit him in the left arm and shoulder, another in the right leg. A sliver tore off his thumbnail. A doctor who examined him said, "Not much chance...
...front of Bloody Nose ridge on Peleliu. a Marine colonel fretted in his command post-a piece of tin under a poncho which shaded him from the sun. He worried the end of a frazzled cigaret, surveyed the field before him with hard, bloodshot eyes. For many days his regiment had been fighting it out in this sector against Jap troops dug into the limestone face of the ridge...
...Marauders got their food (mostly iron rations) from the air-it was dropped by Tenth Air Force planes. They slept on the ground, each man under two blankets and a poncho, pestered by continuous rains and leeches. Last week they were repaid for all their discomforts, all their meticulous training: the stunned Japs were completely surprised to find U.S. troops throwing a road block across their only supply line in the Hukawng Valley...
...weary Fifth's infantry had fought across one of Italy's most famous battlegrounds. Here, in the damp autumn of 1860, bearded Giuseppe Garibaldi, poncho-clad and kerchief around his brow, had walked among his ragged redshirts, crying, "Courage! Courage!" Here, on the Capuan plain, he had beaten the Bourbon King of Naples and advanced Italy a long step toward liberation and unity...