Word: wristed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Bright & early next morning, wearing two wrist watches (one set at Chungking time, the other at American E.W.T.), he turned up at the Red Cross Club, known to G.I.s in China as the "Java Dive." Staring at the unmistakable U.S. trappings, Henry Wallace said: "You've certainly created America here. It's swell." Then he stripped down to the waist for a volleyball game between officers and enlisted men, played in a drenching rain. Wallace teamed up with the G.I.s, fell flat on the muddy cement court...
Three other battalion commanders in our northern force were wounded the first day. One of them, one of the best known figures in the armed forces, was struck by a 13-mm. shell which punctured his lung, and five pieces of artillery shrapnel which tore into his arm and wrist. I saw him in a foxhole just after the doctors had dressed his wounds...
...children in charge of a 16-year-old Negro boy. She returned about 10:30 and dismissed the "sitter." She was found next day in the trench coat in which she entered the house. The police questioned the baby-tender and believed his story. Mrs. Higginson's broken wrist watch indicated that the attack had come, apparently from behind, at 11:15. There had been no attempt at rape, no robbery. Six special investigators went to work; 30 state police beat through the dark woods; and the boys' father flew home, grim-faced, and rushed his wife...
...There were three pistol shots from somewhere. The tanks stopped and I saw one of the infantrymen pointing his gun down a side road. There a helmetless German stumbled out into the open, hands in the air. His right wrist had been shattered by a bullet and from his upraised arm the hand dangled by a few bloody shreds of raw flesh. A civilian came up, searched him. Our troops waved him to the rear, went...
...nonsense'' is one of the few print1-able phrases among combat soldiers in Italy for the rules that trip them up in rear areas. Regulations about saluting, wearing underwear, having your wrist watch on the outside of the wrist get little sympathy or understanding from the man from a foxhole...