Word: pined
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...When one pine-marked trench was opened, Red Cross girls descended, pawed over 250 corpses so decomposed that they were no longer horrible. They called to men with notebooks: "One handkerchief marked with a K, one pair of glasses." Then, enthusiastically, "Here is his passport, his name is Piotr Kowalski." In another trench was all that was mortal of Mieczyslaw Niedzialkowski, a Warsaw Socialist editor who had loved strong argument and strong drink and who, in 1939, had organized the workers' brigades that helped defend his city. Last week the workmen built him a little coffin and laid...
...foresters moved on, pointing to more and still more little pine trees. One forester guessed that 12,000 Polish bodies lay in Palmiry Forest, still unidentified...
Obviously he wants a bigger and stronger miners' union, because that is the platform on which he parades. But he has very little association with mining these days, except when he stands in his pine-paneled office under his chandelier: a cogwheel hanging from mining augers, decorated with mining shovels and a sledge, supporting a ring of miners' lamps. The country's welfare is the miners', and for the country's welfare he has shown little regard...
...food, Gus will putter about his fruit trees. He likes to look off east toward the Evangelical church, where, as a boy, during the interminable sermons, he traded jackknives behind the pews, and where rain, snow or shine the Kuesters still worship every Sunday. He likes to see the pine-and cedar-sheltered church graveyard, a tranquil reminder that the life which the earth gives must in the end return to the earth. There two generations of his neighbors and family are buried...
David M. key, Jr. '49--Rhoda Lippitt (Pine Manor...