Word: enshroud
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...dawn the searchers gathered up the broken bodies. Padre Vélaz could not identify most of them, but carefully copied the laundry marks in their clothing. Then he helped enshroud his students in sheets. At 9, the party, carrying the shrouded bodies slung between poles, began its downhill procession. At the foot of the mountain, footsore and unshaven, Padre Vélaz met and talked with some of the boys' fathers, completed the work of identification by telegraphing for a list of school laundry numbers. Then he took charge and directed the task of soldering the zinc coffins...
...only a tragic witticism when addressed to those who know how quickly nationalism, patriotism and independence in other countries have been crushed to produce subservient puppet governments-zombie governments that breathe and speak and act, but have no soul.* The United Nations tried to peer through the mists that enshroud this regime. Nothing could be seen. The only voice that was heard was an echo of a greater voice that had come rolling and rumbling across steppe and tundra and mountain from a faraway place...