Word: carabao
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...silence and the stripped, twisted forms of ash-grey men, women, children and dogs. In one corner of what used to be a hut, I saw 17 bodies huddled together in death. Two, about eight or nine years old, were hugging each other. About 100 yards away was a carabao, bathed in ash and dead, but still standing. As I left, a chicken crossed my path. Its right side was grey and seared, the other side untouched. It was the only living thing I saw there...
...almost three times that of Chicago. In the provinces, landlords continued to take 70% of the crops for themselves, getting interest of 100% to 200% on loans to tenants who were already so deeply in debt that their grandsons would not own enough land to live on or a carabao to plow...
...called Pag-asa (Tagalog for hope), he toured the islands, dropping in unannounced on one army outpost after another; in regions Pag-asa could not reach, he traveled by car or carabao cart. He gave the soldiers better food, better quarters, promise of advancement. At one post he went out with a patrol to do a little Huk-shooting himself, and handed a battlefield commission to a sergeant who bagged three. At another post he found soldiers sleeping without blankets...
...asked me all sorts of questions, and never showed a sign whether they believed me or not." When they began talking among themselves in Tagalog, Jones thought his goose was cooked. But they finally accepted him as a member of the band and celebrated with a feast of roast carabao (water buffalo...
...congratulatory calls, and "a couple of guys called me up and tried to talk tough. I don't know whether they were Klansmen or not. I gave them my office and my home address and I told them I still had the .45 I used to shoot carabao with...