Word: boned
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Human Bone Meal. The victims' charred bones and ashes were moved into an adjoining department where an incredible process went on. These human bones were mechanically pulverized, placed inside large tin cans and shipped back to Germany for fertilizing the fields...
...dangerous job began secretly in the first empty days of the war. It was a gallant thing then-dirty old "rust buckets" from West Coast bone yards taking aboard the tag end of a nation's aged and faulty munitions, bound for Pearl Harbor, Melbourne, the Philippines. But the munitions-loading grew. Slingloads of shells and high explosives were turning dozens of the new grey Liberty ships into floating bombs in scores of American harbors. Thousands of men & women spent their days & nights making and handling cordite...
Early in the war, George VI visited the Home Fleet, ordered extra grog for all hands. For the crew of a bone-dry U.S. cruiser operating with the Home Fleet: extra plates of ice cream...
...chickens out of the house, went to work without instruments or medicines. For antiseptic he used salt water. Bandages were washed in a creek, re-used until they fell apart. His instruments: a carpenter's hammer, a hack saw, chisels. ("In fractures we hammered house nails through bones. ... To chip away the bone we used an ordinary chisel...
...keep up the spirits of the wounded, unanesthetized men-and to drown the sound of the saw gritting through bone- Dr. X ordered boys & girls to sing Partisan songs. The wounded stared hard at the ceiling, sometimes hoarsely joined the singing. Often half of the injured were women...