Word: trenches
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Nearly everybody in the U.S. harbors organisms of trench mouth, may develop the disease if his resistance gets too low from poor nutrition or a bender. Then a bacillus and a spirochete (and sometimes other mouth germs) work together to produce tender, bleeding gums (medical name: Vincent's stomatitis) or throat and tonsil infections (medical name: Vincent's angina). Mouthwashing with hydrogen peroxide is one of the commonest treatments. But treatment usually goes on & on in serious cases...
...Damned rear guard holding up a whole division," he said. "Where are our troops?" He swung his binoculars north. "Oh, yeh. I see three of them. Crossing an open field. Why the hell don't they take cover?" A few minutes later he crawled over to a slit-trench phone, talked to a regimental commander. "Of course, your battalion commander knows more about the situation than I do," he said smoothly. "But maybe we ought to get in there fast and exploit this barrage." Back at the outpost, he commented: "We're going to attack in half...
When a soldier lives in the field, Charlie, he goes through a hell on earth. . . . You go to bed in a slit trench at 11:30 at night and you get up at 3:15 in the morning. When the bivouac is over and you come back to your barracks you are . . . mad at the whole damn world. Then you pick up the paper and read about some civilian war workers out on strike and that really makes you blow your...
...Rock. Soon after their marriage Nancy and Freddy went to Mexico City. Nancy came down with typhoid and trench mouth. Her parents flew to her side. Freddy came every day to the hospital, twice gave blood for a transfusion...
...average American boy was unusually naive concerning politics-before he crouched in a slit trench and began to think a little. The noise of H.E. shells exploding a few yards from him has awakened him from political lethargy. After we have won this war, nine million American boys are going to crawl out of their last slit trench and cast nine million intelligent votes . . . [for] strong fearless statesmanship...