Word: paddyfield
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...giant plane was rapidly losing altitude, and at 5,000 ft. the pilot saw that he could not make the 1½ miles still to go to the runway. He decided to try to put down in paddy-fields. When the plane thudded down, it skidded over one paddyfield, skimmed a river and collapsed into a second paddyfield. Both wings snapped off, a fire erupted and finally the plane, six stories high, broke apart. Bodies were strewn about the paddy fields and swampland. Some 190 of the 305 people on board were killed, perhaps 140 of them children; survivors were rushed...
...Prek Phnou, which is only eight miles from Phnom-Penh, three T-28s dropped napalm on a paddyfield, causing orange flames to spurt across the open area. Three Cambodian youths in ragtag uniforms came trudging down a dirt road; one wore a purple bandanna around his head, another a Pathet Lao peaked cap from Laos, and the third had on a fatigue jacket and red bathing trunks. But all three carried M-79 grenade launchers slung across their slender shoulders...
Unanimous Sympathy. It had been pretty much of a lost cause for the prosecution. Chief Prosecutor Major William Eckhardt had tried to link Medina with the My Lai killings, but only two instances could be firmly established. Medina had shot a woman when she started to move in a paddyfield and he had fired two shots over the head of a prisoner. Otherwise, Eckhardt could only claim that Medina's failure to stop the slaughter amounted to criminal negligence. Bailey retorted that Medina's guilt could not be proved beyond a "reasonable doubt." Under the circumstances, he asked...
...scene of the massacre. He also denied that he had told his men, as Galley had claimed during his own court-martial, to kill everything, including women and children; he said he had merely told them to "use common sense." Medina admitted to killing the woman in the paddyfield, but claimed that he fired instinctively when he saw her move...
Kataoka's quest is not always rewarded. While traveling by train across Kyushu one day, he glimpsed a "great masterpiece" standing in a paddyfield. Hurrying back to the field, he was surprised to find the beauty gone. After questioning nearby farmers, he found the sad answer: the splendid scarecrow was only the village elder in a moment of meditation...