Word: cordwood
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After the first mass funeral, nobody found time for more burials. Since several cemeteries were being used as guerrilla strong points, naked corpses were piled up in mortuaries like cordwood...
...torture chamber in the Gestapo jail at No. 145 Via Tasso, talked with Angelo Yoppi, a hopeless cripple after 52 days' imprisonment there with his hands and legs tied behind his back. They peered into a cavern on Rome's outskirts, where the Nazis had piled like cordwood some 500 Italians massacred last March in reprisal for the grenade-killing of 32 German soldiers; now weeping Romans stood at the tomb's mouth, searching for relatives among the cadavers...
...some of the pits the bodies had been neatly stacked like cordwood; in others the stiff, twisted remains had been heaped together as they fell. Some had been officers, some privates; all wore faded blue-grey uniforms and tarnished brass buttons with the Polish eagle still recognizable. Dr. Prozorovsky wore a white smock, an orange apron and red rubber gloves. Kathy had on a plaid skirt, an orange pullover sweater and garnet nail polish...
...terrain into a shambles, crushed houses into the earth, splintered olive trees, killed white oxen on the roads. The earth was pocked so that a man could not lie spread-eagled on it without his hands and feet touching shell holes. The Germans who died were piled like cordwood. Those who lived came out of their trenches to machine-gun the Canadian infantry. For three days the Canadians attacked and were counterattacked before the Germans gave up the gully, the ridgetop and finally the crossroads...
...dining ward, 467 mental patients clinked their forks and spoons against their tin and enamelware plates. Minutes later they began to drop in anguish to the floor. That night and the next day 47 of them died. In the tiny morgue the bodies had to be piled like cordwood...