Word: stretchers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...sniper's bullet fractures a Marine's leg, yet he continues carrying a wounded squad mate on a stretcher for a mile to the evacuation area. Hot shrapnel severs the leg muscles of another Marine so badly that doctors later say that he should have been unable to walk, yet he runs more than 200 yards to a medical-aid station. A man with a smashed knee crawls 40 yards to a mortar position, props himself on his elbows, and helps load shells for five hours before reporting his wound...
...finally cut. A group of wounded who should rightly have been in catatonic shock stumbled down a path under a squall of incoming fire, their intestines peeking pinkly between their fingers. The colonel walked through it all with quiet confidence. He questioned a second lieutenant walking back alongside a stretcher: "Where are you going?" The lieutenant replied that the wounded man was his brother. "Aren't those other men up there your brothers too?" the colonel said. "Get back...
...tonight: the usual iridescent lavender suit has given way to a blue blazer and grey slacks. But the crowd knows him as "God's Man of Faith and Power," and they also know that something powerful is coming. "We need six strong men to help bring out this stretcher," he shouts. Half a dozen eager volunteers spring into the wings to bring out an ambulance stretcher carrying a groaning black woman. "This woman was brought into the hospital this morning with third-degree burns over her body," reads an attending nurse. "She was home, high on dope, when...
...Roosevelt's New Deal made those ideas law, socialism's appeal to the U.S. working class began to diminish. "It was often said," Thomas reflected, "that Roosevelt was carrying out the Socialist Party platform. Well, in a way it was true -he carried it out on a stretcher...
...Pone raced to New Cassel. Outside the laundry room with the police lay Mitchell's common-law wife on a stretcher. He had shot both her and her brother after an argument. Mitchell ignored the wounded woman's pleas to come out and give up the child. Then Pone took over. Pone used Negro psychology-sociology to make his case to Mitchell, also a Negro...