Word: paddyfield
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...paddyfield on the village edge, stretcher bearers brought in wounded for relay to Tsaolaochi. About a dozen men in various states of shock and pain lay on the ground. Fresh bandages reeking of alcohol seemed their only care-no plasma or morphine. They suffered stoically. A battalion commander, his throat and shoulder torn by shrapnel, retched helplessly. Another man had a broken ankle bare in the chill air, propped up on a wad of straw...
There was just enough time before dark for return to Tsaolaochi. On the way back we stopped for a village funeral. Lined against the twilight in an empty paddyfield stood half a dozen countrymen around a high-ended Chinese coffin. The chief mourners wore white headbands of grief. They were burying their mother, Chang Hu-shih, an old woman...
Gandhi's toes were blistered. As he walked the flower-strewn paddyfield paths of eastern Bengal last week, through lines of Hindus and Moslems who wept and knelt to touch his bandaged feet, other Hindus and Moslems in distant Bombay chopped at each other with long knives. Twenty-two people died in the Bombay riots, including some Untouchables who were caught in the middle...