Word: graveyard
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...away from the hospital a humble little old lady, Aki Komatsu, rested from the sun with two other old ladies in the black hollow of a burned-out tree in the center of the Hiroshima city graveyard. She had little to share but the shade, she said. But she was sharing much more. "I lost my husband and my three children," she said, pointing a crooked finger to a rubble heap near by. "I lived. These [pointing to her companions], lost theirs also. Now we three old ladies live in a little hut near the city hall. We are clearing...
...them, his portrait looked as inert and uninspired as a coil of rope. But the conservative officials of Boston's museum seemed to feel that Benton had captured a vanishing type on canvas. And for once, Tom Benton, who used to complain that an art museum was a graveyard "run by a pretty boy with delicate wrists and a swing in his gait," agreed with the officials. His friend Hough, said Benton, "is a good old New England editor...
...would never seem so far off as now, Vag mused. He watched the dispirited retreat of Sturtevant's bulk and felt only compassion. In spite of himself he was reminded of a wounded elephant's search for the graveyard...
...fences, when chickens or turkeys stand with their backs to the wind, when whirlwinds lift the dust on roads, rain is coming. A sunny shower means that "the Devil is a-whuppin' his wife." A mild Christmas means a heavy harvest, but "a green Christmas makes a fat graveyard." When a cat sits down with its tail toward the fire, the hillman looks for a cold spell...
...hyacinths are in bloom, white & rose candles stand high and firm in the chestnut trees. You don't have to remember the bodies still buried under the ruins to realize that all the flowers amid Vienna's dead-grey monuments make the city look like a big graveyard...