Word: pilings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Accuse documents the Kharkov war-criminal trials (TIME, Dec. 27, 1943) with the force of a pile driver. It shows the faces of the three virtual nobodies, "typical Nazis," and of the collaborationist Russian, a "miserable weakling," who stand accused. It shows the hideous photographs and testimonials of the atrocities, or kinds of atrocity,* to which the accused plead guilty. Even more overwhelming are shots of bereaved women as they touch and caress the wounds and the frozen feet of their dead; or the restrained but colossal grief and passion for retribution in the faces of the men & women...
Next day, the janitor smelled smoke, rushed down to the basement to find a pile of paper blazing. Yellow Pants went bounding up the stairs. Quickly dousing the fire, the janitor followed. Several boys were already in hot pursuit. Through the first floor and up to the second, more & more pupils joined the chase until the whole school was in an uproar. This time they thought they had him. But almost before their eyes he vanished again...
...rose Michigan's erect and greying Arthur Vandenberg, the Senate's other San Francisco delegate. Arthur Vandenberg is an accomplished and resounding orator. His usual custom is to pile his desk high with green-bound copies of the Congressional Record, lay his carefully prepared manuscript on top, thus leaving his arms free for gestures. Sometimes he has a small lectern brought in. But this time Senator Vandenberg used neither lectern nor notes...
British Tommies, roused for once to a burning fury, allow them no respite. It is their just reward. Perhaps it can all be summed up in the few croaking words that came from a pitiful pile of rags and bones that lay at my feet: "Look, Englishman, this is German culture...
Bodies Like Firewood. With other G.I. sightseers we came up from the cellar and passed into another yard fenced in by a high wooden wall. There was a pile of bodies there, stacked more or less the way I stack my firewood back home, not too carefully. There were men and some of them were naked. They looked strange...