Word: oxcart
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...instance, is strictly limited in the amount of nickel he may use. Japanese manufacturers may use all they can buy. Japanese businessmen have plunged into a spree of lavish (and tax free) expense-account entertainment, bigger and shinier foreign cars, extravagant nightclubs and pleasure palaces. The sight of an oxcart stopped beside a Cadillac or a Jaguar is no novelty in downtown Tokyo. In this spendthrift, neon-lighted economic chaos, gangsters, blackmarketeers and slick operators-U.S., Chinese and Korean as well as Japanese-wax fat and prosperous. More & more worried Japanese are aware that the imperial city...
Football Tackles. The Chinese seemed unwilling to make a stand even on the river lines. One day a U.S. gun battery, hard up for targets, opened fire on eleven Chinese plodding north with an oxcart along a road. Some of the shells fell wide of the mark on a hill. Chinese in a column which had been hidden on the hill thought they had been spotted, broke wildly from cover, got caught by the planes...
...stands, others having the time of their lives propelling themselves about frozen pavements and ponds on little homemade sleds which they rode squatting on their haunches. Seoul's black-marketeers went imperturbably about their chores, blowing their whistles and semaphoring energetically with their hands whenever a jeep or oxcart hove into sight...
From all over India's province of Bihar and across the border from Nepal, the blind and the nearly blind arrived on foot, by oxcart and crowded railway car. They had come for the seventh annual eye clinic at the town of Darbhanga (pop. 69,203). Some sang and some prayed as a troop of Boy Scouts, led by a betel-nut-chewing Scoutmaster with a voice like a sideshow barker's, herded them in & out of 20 weather-beaten tents that formed a temporary hospital. Their hospital beds were pallets of straw; their only covering...
...keep up the march were shot or bayoneted. When a man began to stumble we always carried him along as far as we could but that usually wasn't far enough. I was put in with a group of 47 sick men and allowed to ride in an oxcart. Twenty of these 47 guys died before we got to Pyongyang...