Word: dumps
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Curly-haired young Ye Yun Ho, just out of Korea's Presbyterian Theological Seminary, went for a walk last summer beside the great River Han. On the broad flats where U.S. Army trucks dump the city of Seoul's garbage, Ye stopped to watch a swarming tangle of noisy, ragged small fry clawing over the piled-up refuse. The urchins were looking for any scrap of coal or tin or paper that could possibly be sold. For a long time Ye watched them...
...returned to the dump day after day to watch and make friends with the scavengers. They were a poor and filthy rabble, but Ye Yun Ho got along fine with them. While they waited for fresh loads of garbage to arrive, he told them Bible stories and taught them a few hymns...
First verdict of the Cambridge Fire Department and most Eliot-Kirkland residents was "spontaneous combustion in the Houses' garbage dump," but one Eliot janitor declared he had "never seen the cans before...
...night, while the party rested in the walled town of Chioshan, Communists attacked it. Nationalist defenders placed their ammunition dump next to the missionaries' quarters. When shells began to fall, the missionaries took cover in the basement, and prayed again. Nationalist reinforcements arrived, and the Communists withdrew...
...number of shells fell dangerously near Wadsworth House, where for a while the Commander-in-Chief directed the operations. The students were moved hastily out of harm's way to Concord, and the College buildings were used to house soldiers and supplies. Harvard Hall was not only an ammunition dump, but a kitchen as well, and Holden Chapel lost its ecclesiastical dignity for a while for the good cause of billeting some three hundred troops. Even the lead roof of Hollis Hall had to go; it was melted down to provide revolutionary bullets...