Word: parkes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...strikers drove on. At Gridley they deployed into three groups along the highway and in a small park beside the tracks. When the train came, one group cut loose with rocks again. The train went on to the edge of the town, started to back onto a siding. Four guards got off and walked ahead of the caboose...
...radio show (national hookup) gave a veteran soldier and amateur sculptor some clay, told him to make a statue of his wife, and notified all and sundry listeners that this work, encased in sort of permanent coating, would be shipped to New York to be conspicuously placed in its park system...
...center of the city at the Parish Church? About 4 o'clock in the afternoon, comes a report that the Church, Parish House and adjoining buildings had burned down, and that Father Superior and Father Schiffer had been seriously injured and that they had taken refuge in Asano Park on the river bank. Hurriedly, we get together two stretchers and rush toward the city...
Finally we reach the entrance of the park. A large proportion of the populace has taken refuge there, but even the trees of the park are on fire in several places. Paths and bridges are blocked by fallen trees and are almost impassable. It is now quite dark. At the far corner of the park we at last come upon our colleagues. Father Schiffer is lying on the ground deadly pale. He has a deep cut behind the ear and has lost so much blood that we fear for his life. Father Superior has suffered a deep wound...
...mind. He did not want to leave the house and explained that he did not want to survive the destruction of his fatherland. Completely uninjured, he was forcefully carried away. The way they had meant to flee was no longer open and so they made for Asano Park. Fukai refused to go further, and remained behind. He has not been heard of since...