Word: carabao
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...Japanese rout grew, U.S. planes searched the roads and trails for the retreating enemy. One observation plane called for fire on a column in shiny American cars, stolen in Manila, and bamboo-hooded carabao carts, snatched from Igorot farmers. Wrote TIME Correspondent William Gray: "When I saw the area two days later, burned roadside huts were still smoking, the air was ripe with the stench of dead men and animals and souring spilled rice. A scattered pile...
...covered the operation from a carabao cart, crouching low behind the swaying black rump of a carabao named Plaridel as we drove north from Manila. The sun beat down mercilessly and I wished I had brought a sun helmet. Sometimes I also wished I had brought my gas mask. And I certainly wished I had brought a pillow...
...turned to the driver of my carabao cart, a sturdy Filipino wood cutter named Panteleon Manahan...
Under a moon and all through the hot night they tramped. They passed Filipino natives, who stared. Carabao carts were commandeered and the weakest were loaded aboard. One man died of shock, another died when his faltering heart gave out. The rest of them, still bewildered by the suddenness of their delivery, trudged...
...thin and yellow and bottom less, rose against the stilts of the nipa shacks. It flowed level in the roads after the passage of each floundering truck; then lay mockingly smooth again, like rainswept concrete. It cut off villages and made islands of houses. The patient carabao stood happily up to their bellies; chickens and pigs lived on the porches...