Word: bamboos
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...women go where the bulldozers have not gone and the trucks cannot go. They carry their burdens on their backs, holding them with thin, woven bamboo head straps. Each woman takes up to 50 pounds, one-fourth the load saddled on pack horses on the same trails. But there are six times as many Igorot women available as pack horses...
...bird-cage home of plaited bamboo and braided palm-fronds on the weatherside beach of a coral lagoon, I commence reading-and on I read from the red hour of sunrise to hot, windless midday, through a breeze-freshened afternoon to a rose and lilac sunset, into the brief purple twilight and, lamp flame at full height, right up to when the Southern Cross is directly overhead at midnight. Day after day, night after night-the schedule never varies...
...long could the nation hold out against the incendiary typhoon? Not long, thought some. There were rumors of peace bids in the making. But the war lords, disdaining whatever war-weariness might have come to industrialists whose factories were gutted and to civilians whose paper-&-bamboo homes were obliterated, had by no means had enough. Premier Koiso and his fanatical War Minister, Field Marshal. Gen Sugijama, drafted another emergency measure, pushed it through another emergency Diet. It ordered...
...lines of men & women filed into the city with baskets and bamboo cylinders of rice, found ready sales. But food was short. Even the people who had escaped the starvation of Jap prison camps were undernourished, struggling for a subsistence level of living. Only the Army's Philippines Civil Affairs Unit (nicknamed Pee-Cow) kept the city alive-it served hundreds of thousands of meals, set up water points to slake Manila's thirst...
...past nights had been lit with pale flashes of gunfire. Over a radio improvised from scraps and toothpaste tubes they had caught fragmentary reports. They knew that MacArthur-who would "always seem to see the vision of the grim, gaunt, and ghostly men"-must have returned. Inside their bamboo and barbed-wire stockade, they thought with mixed hope and despair of their own chances of escape...