Word: carabaos
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...Japanese soldier took my canteen, gave the water to a horse, and threw the canteen away. Men recently killed were lying along the roadside; many had been run over and flattened by Japanese trucks. . . . Finally a Japanese officer permitted us to drink water from a dirty carabao wallow...
...overseas soldiers one of the minor mysteries of war has been the cigaret supply. In the Philippines men who had to eat carabao and mule meat could understand why their cigarets dwindled to a pack a week and finally disappeared. But U.S. troops in Australia whose supply has never been seriously impeded do not know yet why they smoked a low-selling brand like...
Food was running out and men were getting leaner on a diet of carabao (water buffalo), cavalry horses and mules, but they stayed on their feet and fought until the burning fever of malaria laid them out. Thousands of prostrated fighting men jammed the field hospitals. Others, listless, weary and sometimes out of their heads hung on with their outfits where they were more liabilities than assets...
...acres conceived by His Majesty when, as Crown Prince in 1899, he visited Yellowstone National Park. The present Crown Prince Leopold and Crown Princess Astrid of Belgium were in the Philippine Islands last week, doubtless conceived many a notion as they were handsomely feted by new, carabao-shooting Governor General Theodore Roosevelt...
...slight diversion it might interest your readers to know that bathing in the Philippines is conducted in any convenient place-at a well or "on the bank of a stream where the carabao dream" and so far as adult females are concerned there is no undue exposure of the person. When the bather arrives at the place of the bath she loosens her saya (skirt) which is tied round her waist and lifts it to cover her bosom. She then removes her floppy camisa (waist) and camison (chemise) if she wears the latter garment, kicks aside her chinelas (slippers...