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...down there below us was a crafty young officer. We could see him detach himself with three soldiers from the rest of the men and go forward in a low crouch, shifting from side to side, as if they were bloodhounds sniffing a trail. Suddenly 50 yards from the trench the officer's hand flew out by his side and urgently motioned his men to lie down. Then the officer crawled forward through the bare wheat and around small rocks...
...among many U.S. farmers. A man of stubborn faith, he argued that the only way to get rid of an epidemic is to stamp it out. When farmers came to hear his case, he first made them bathe their feet in disinfectant. His doctor's tools were trench-digging machines and rifles, crowbars and pickaxes, vats of formaldehyde and carloads of quicklime. His white-suited crews moved across the country, singling out the infected herds. Wherever there was a cow with ropy spittle, dollar-size blisters in its mouth and rotting hoofs, the whole herd was liquidated. Trench diggers...
...first an American, then a Southerner, and as I lie in my slit-trench during a break in maneuvers, my blood boils with rage at reading radical, damyankee Dr. Conant's wish for "setting up Federally financed but State-operated machinery for retraining the veterans and placing them in jobs, etc." [TIME, May 31). This Government control of so-called "freedom" is what I, and, I assure you, many like me are fighting against...
...reading a magazine when the shelling got heavy by day and at night lying there waiting to know if his number was coming up. To Corporal Isaac Lorenzo Moroni Parker it was the sonofabitching Kasserine Pass. To Private First Class Michael Scotto di Clementi it was digging a slit trench beside the colonel's tent in an oasis and wondering if anybody remembered Micky Scott of Our Gang comedies. To Major General Terry Allen it was a satisfying pride in his 1st Division and an occasional chance to talk polo with a British major over...
...Army doctors discovered the organism of pneumonia (George Miller Sternberg, almost simultaneously with Pasteur in 1881), of tooth decay (Puerto Rican Major Fernando Emilio Rodriguez, 1921), trench fever, three types of dysentery...