Word: charnel
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Warphans. Madame herself never had any children. When Chungking was terribly bombed in 1939, Madame took on herself the job of caring for what she called China's Warphans. After one particularly bad bombing, after she had been on her feet all night going from fire to charnel fire, she drove outside Chungking in a truck to find her evacuated charges. She found the children marching along the road, the older ones leading the younger, urchins carrying infants. Madame commandeered trucks and got the miniature army to shelter...
...hospitals and improvised morgues which were turned into charnel houses for the night, 484 dead were counted; it was the most disastrous U.S. fire since 571 people were killed in Chicago's Iroquois Theater holocaust in 1903. One Boston newspaper ran a two-word banner line: BUSBOY BLAMED. But the busboy had not put up the Cocoanut Grove's tinder-box decorations, nor was he responsible for the fact that Boston's laws do not require nightclubs to have fireproof fixtures, sprinkler systems or exit markers...
Last Hope. For the land at which Miss Martineau stared was not merely a country but one of the last best hopes of the world and by some British instinct of freedom she knew it. Europe was a prison and a charnel house. This was the land on which all men's dreams of freedom had come to rest. It was one of the last unoccupied lands in the world. This land had fought for and established a revolutionary principle-political liberty. If that succeeded, the world's weary history of successive tyrannies would change. If it failed...