Word: laden
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...fury of battle had died down. Now weary, haggard, bundle-laden refugees slipped out of the forests, bent into the icy wind and snow, plodded across the pitted battlefield. Before them lay Gorodok - the "Little Town" - charred, ruined, stinking of dead flesh and gunpowder...
...ships snake about as nimbly as Fred Astaire. swaying from side to side with rhythmic ebullience. The Japs, boiling mad, fail to attack the troop-laden transports, concentrate instead on the escorts...
...Salarian Gate. For three days and nights they pillaged palaces and temples, dragged Romans into slavery. Moved perhaps by awe, they spared the precious vessels which "belonged to St. Peter," respected the sanctuary of Christian churches, did not fire Rome's noble buildings. But when their booty-laden wagons trundled away, they left behind a city reduced to beggary. Between Alaric and Hitler, none of the many sackings of Rome surpassed in wanton ferocity that of the German and Spanish mercenaries of Emperor Charles V in 1527. They came down from Lombardy, where they had mutinied...
...steamed once, fully laden, through a pack of 25 submarines. Not one was able to train a torpedo...
...parching heat of the Ukrainian summer neared its end, and the air was laden with the promise of rain. Soon downpours would convert the fat, black soil into paste...