Word: litters
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...which had winter clothing, were fighting last week in 20-below-zero cold. The cold brought tears which froze on the men's faces. After a U.S. attack near the Manchurian border, medical officers reported as many casualties from cold as from enemy action. Only quick work by litter teams prevented those wounded by gunfire from freezing to death...
...post-election litter of blurred posters, old bunting and battered hopes, the country sat down to figure it out. Mr. Truman, who had predicted that the voters would return him a Fair Deal Congress, had been as wrong in 1950 as he had been right in 1948. The mid-term election was, in many respects, a personal defeat. What knocked Mr. Truman off his pedestal last week...
...from Moscow circled above Paris' Orly Field, showing the bright red stars on its fuselage as it turned, then came in for a landing. Half an hour later, an ambulance drove up, opened its doors. From the ambulance Maurice Thorez, France's Communist boss, reclining on a litter, his feet in bedroom slippers, was carried to the aircraft to start what may be his final pilgrimage to Moscow. He said goodbyes to the bigwigs of French Communism: Jacques Duclos, looking like the tubby mayor of a little French town; Andre Marty, his fanatic face wearing an uncommonly benign...
...dozen weighty trunks were hefted aboard the plane. No one inspected them; the French government had waived customs formalities. Then the Thorez litter was passed in, the white curtains were drawn and Maurice Thorez crossed into a world that outsiders are not allowed to glimpse...
Chief among the reasons for the new saving of life was the speed with which the wounded got to hospitals. As in all wars, litter bearers went in to snatch the wounded from under enemy fire (TIME, Aug. 7); usually there was a jolting ride by jeep or ambulance back from the front lines. But from that point, the Korean war was different...