Word: littering
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...much faster rate, because the U.N. holds many more prisoners, the U.N. handed over some 2.700 Communists daily. Some of them were litter cases, too. Obviously under orders. Chinese returnees solemnly ripped up their newly issued uniforms and rolled in the dirt, to present as dismal a picture as possible for their propaganda photographers. The North Koreans threw canteens, shoes, crutches and clothing at U.N. roster officers...
...ambulance, were sped back to Freedom Village near Munsan. Some of the survivors of Communist prison camps were healthy, robust men, who grinned, waved and danced on the gravel path to the receiving tents. Some could not dance, because they were emaciated or had only one leg. Others were litter cases, undernourished or sick with tuberculosis or dysentery...
...first mound of corpses by the roadside, caked with dried blood, open mouths frozen in a scream. His sergeant said: ''Don't get shook up. They're just Koreans." Or there were muddy U.S. Army boots protruding awkwardly from under a blanket as a litter jeep bounced down the road from the front. Or in the rain, as he climbed his first Korean hill, there was the glistening poncho stretched over the two men sleeping near the trail-and then he realized that they were asleep forever...
...exchange was supposed to be a trade of sick and wounded under the Geneva Convention, and the U.N. had followed the agreement closely, though U.N. commanders knew that the Communists would make their propagandistic most of the amputees and litter cases. The Reds, to fill their quotas, were sending back soldiers who were generally in good health, including some who were recently captured. One was a cocky, 19-year-old Marine machine gunner, Pfc. Joseph B. Brit Jr. of Long Beach. Calif., who had been captured during the Bunker Hill fighting on March 26. Brit said he had parried...
...giving birth is the source of what Dr. Hartman considers several preposterous possum legends. But for all its stupidity, the possum, in its sex life, is much like other mammals. After only 12½ days' gestation, the mother props herself into a sitting position and delivers a large litter of tiny (20 can fit into a teaspoon), wormlike young. Still little more than squirming, pink embryos, the baby possums clamber upward over their mother's soft, warm underbelly and into the pouch that opens and closes like an old-fashioned tobacco sack. There they fasten themselves...