Word: pilings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...procession of dead and wounded seemed endless; men with stretchers pushed through the crowd to pile bodies in a nearby driveway, to carry the wounded to ambulances or into a nearby kitchen where surgeons operated on a table covered with bloody bedsheets. For 4½ hours the two telescoped smokers stayed stubbornly locked together while the living moaned inside and a dead man stared fixedly from one window; then two huge cranes lifted the upper car, revealing bodies and debris wedged and jammed almost immovably, and the litters were loaded anew...
...front. On a bitterly cold but sunny morning, three hours after his divisions jumped off, MacArthur's Constellation, the SCAP, landed on Sinanju's bumpy airfield. Welcomed by a cluster of his top brass, the general climbed into a jeep and pulled the hood of his pile-lined parka over his head. In the back seat rode the Eighth Army's Lieut. General Walton Walker...
With Blodnick, Dennis, and Ed Condon sweeping the backboards, and the Yardlings' sliding man-to-man defense throttling the Tech attack, the freshmen were able to pile up an early lead, which they increased steadily until the last quarter. The halftime score...
About once a week, the A.M.P.'s pile into cars and snoop around industrial plants in the Greater Boston area as part of the "know the other man's business" part of the program...
...Sunchon, a South Korean soldier pointed out the bodies of seven American soldiers who had starved to death. Then, on the bridge above the tunnel, appeared five haggard, hysterical G.I.s. They guided General Allen to a small gully where a heap of 17 bodies lay hidden by underbrush. Another pile of 15 lay sprawled in a cornfield. Others lay in a mass grave by the railroad tracks. General Allen counted 68 dead. There were 21 survivors, who were immediately flown to Japan...