Word: puller
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...Vietnam War has claimed its victims in various dreadful ways, but the death last week of Lewis B. Puller Jr. seemed particularly haunting. Puller, the son of the most decorated member of the Marine Corps in its history, served in Vietnam as a Marine combat leader. Both his legs and part of his hands were blown off when he stepped on a booby trap. He lived, and he became an attorney at the Pentagon and a respected veterans activist. Then, in 1992, he won a Pulitzer Prize for his autobiography, Fortunate Son. Yet his life had recently come to seem...
Suicide was hardly a concern of Puller's in the summer of 1968. Back then he was trying his hardest to stay alive. Booby traps tormented him and the other soldiers deployed in the coastal region near Danang known as the Riviera. The devices were the spoor, primitive and deadly, of a mostly invisible enemy. Some were as simple as nails slathered with excrement pushed through the bottoms of discarded C-ration cans. But the booby trap Puller stepped on, while in full flight from a squad of advancing North Vietnamese regulars, was made with a howitzer shell. Puller described...
With his legs gone, Puller in an instant became half a man. It seemed virtually certain that he would leave his pregnant wife a widow. The triage experts in Danang did their heroic part, however, as, later, did the surgeons, corpsmen and therapists at the Philadelphia Naval Hospital...
Speed the Plow depicts a day in the life of a Hollywood studio. The recently promoted and gut-wringingly smug Bobby Gould selects the scripts which the studio makes into movies. Ambitious and unthinking, he is on the verge of green-lighting yet another crass but lucrative crowd-puller. But he is thrown into a quandary by his insinuating temp's efforts to promote a pretentious novel about radioactivity. Much soul-searching ensues as Charlie Fox, a subordinate, and Karen, the secretary, wrestle for control of Gould's mind and agenda...
...realm of the Calcuttan poor. He treats the lepers in the adjacent village, much to the horror of the paranoid denizens of his own village. The storyline takes twist after twist, placing a story within a story. The internal rivalry between the destitute lepers and the village of rickshaw-puller tenants is juxtaposed against the larger framework of animosity between the poor villagers and the landlord's draconian son, Ashok. He terrorizes the villagers, and wreaks havoc in their impoverished and already miserable lives...