Word: lain
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Recapturing Taejon, the 24th Division found the bodies of 40 American soldiers thrown into long trenches in the Taejon prison yard. There was one survivor, Sergeant Carey H. Weiner of Hickman Mills, Mo. Wounded only in the hand, he had feigned death, lain in the trench for two days. Weiner said that before pulling out of Taejon the Communists tied the prisoners together, pushed them into the trenches and shot them as they crouched against the sides. The Communists then shoveled dirt on the bodies. As the Taejon area was searched, the bodies of 5,000 or 6,000 Koreans...
Last February at a railway station near Tours, Raymonde had lain flat on her face in the path of a slow-moving train loaded with tanks. When the engineer stopped his train a mob of Communists swarmed aboard, overpowered the guards, ripped batteries and wires out of the tanks. The train was held up for nine hours...
...foundations are now being completed in the excavation, which had lain untouched during the period of the hearings. Three laborers and two carpenters work on the project from 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. daily, along with a steam shovel crew. The Niles Contractor Company of Newton is in charge of the construction. The church should be completed in nine months...
Chester Boddy (rhymes with crowed he) hoped to pick up the votes of any Democrats who thought Helen Douglas too much of a Fair Dealer and too stridently prolabor. In his earlier, more venturesome days, their political tracks might have lain confusingly closer: under Boddy the News had once trafficked in some odd political nostrums...