Word: meals
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...board the Hakusan Maru, prisoners changed their PW-stamped olive drab and khaki for white shirts and trousers, squatted down eagerly for a Japanese meal of baked sea bream, rice and sake. Said Yokoyama: "The memory of the destruction and murder committed in the Philippines will remain with me as a nightmare that I will carry to my grave...
...over to the civilians to be beaten further. The heat and thirst became maddening: "Rice paddies are fertilized with human excreta, but we drank, drank deep, and dipped our burning heads in the stinking water. A shaggy, dusty buzzard dropped not six feet away from me and resumed the meal the pilots of the United Nations had interrupted. Under his claws were the remains of an American sergeant. We marched...
...Wheeling, W.Va. in February 1950. Matthews has been a member of what Westbrook Pegler calls "our cell of Red baiters," a group with which McCarthy also mingled. "It is not an organized group of Red baiters," Pegler has explained. "[But] Mr. Matthews is an amateur cook . . . He cooks a meal and we go down and . . . take part in a small, festive evening...
Werner David went home from the Agfa plant that night to a meal of potato and carrots. Behind locked doors, he tuned his radio to West Berlin's U.S.-operated radio RIAS and heard about the Berlin protest march. It happened almost the same way at Wolfgang Fritsch's house. As he and his wife switched off the radio and went to bed, he muttered: "It's happened. It's happened." Next morning, at the Agfa plant, the uranium pits, the dockworks at Rostock, the heavy-machinery works in Magdeburg, at the center of Red Berlin...
...least eight months, but there is a good chance that it will last indefinitely. Then a famous bull could become immortal in a sense: he could keep on fathering calves-as many as 100,000 of them-long after his body had been made into bologna and bone meal...