Word: helmeted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...heavily sandbagged bunker, a regimental commander in a crack U.S. division leaned against a supporting beam, took off his helmet, ran his fingers through matted grey-blond hair. "If we can get through the enemy," he said, "it will be a long, slow job and it will cost us plenty. We'll have to burn and blast him out with flamethrowers and demolition grenades. And we'll need a lot more here than we've got now. In this war it's too late for any lightning offensives...
Atop a flag-decked stand at Canneau one day last week, President Paul Magloire cocked his aluminum safety helmet at a rakish angle and pushed a plunger to explode 50 lbs. of dynamite, the first blast in the construction of Haiti's $21 million Little TVA in the Artibonite Valley (TIME, Jan. 12).* A small boy in the crowd of 2,000, expecting something downright atomic, heard the muffled whoom and muttered, "Pas bon [no good...
...cadets fell in on the weather deck of the training ship, stripped to the waist, washed and shaved out of ice-filled buckets of water. On shore the treatment was reversed: pushups with everyone swaddled in three pairs of pajamas, two blue uniforms, a grey overcoat, woolen cap, steel helmet and pack, in a room as hot as a pressure cooker...
...Charlie Company's next payday, his buddies dropped $1,800 in a helmet for him, just about all the pay they got. Then the regiment began chipping in, boosted the fund to $4,327, including $900 from regimental members in the U.S. who had known Joe. Last week in Pusan, Joe was being fitted with a Korean-made set of artificial limbs. He still hadn't told his wife-to-be. Said he: "Maybe when she sees me after I get my new arms and legs, she won't be so surprised...
That wintry morning, Corpsman Irwin Rietz was on duty in his first-aid station, close to the front line. Through the crump of enemy mortars, he heard a G.I. shout, "Medic . . . medic," and raced to the shallow trench where his first combat casualty lay. The wounded man's helmet had fallen over his face; blood oozed from a jagged hole in his breast. Irwin concentrated on all the things he had been taught to do. "Take it easy, Mac," said Corpsman Rietz as he ripped open the blood-soaked flak jacket and pressed dressings on the wound...