Word: plastered
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...other side of the picture, the parish church had been unroofed, the steeple had been shot full of holes. Stations of the Cross were hanging loosely from the stone walls, and the pews and the altar itself were coated with plaster. The adjoining vicarage had been burned out. The altar flowers were wilting in their vases. The church doors were blown in, but no one was inside. Statues of the saints had toppled from their niches...
...Convalescence. "Civilians, livestock and the wounded walk in long disciplined columns over the mountains at night. I asked whether plaster was available for fractures. Yes, it could always be captured from the enemy, but plaster breaks in the movement, so broken limbs are compressed by wooden boards nailed together. Nor is there any convalescence possible in this country - a man belongs to a walking hospital or to the front...
Fortunately, it took less than a month to get his foot out of the plaster cast. It must have been a great day for him when the military authorities notified him he would be the one U.S. correspondent to join Tito's forces and eyewitness their counterattack against the Germans at the moment of the Allied invasion across the Channel...
...housewives and munitions girls, its fighter pilots and mine layers. He even had his own personal bomb. After his office on the north side of the Palace had been blitzed, he moved across the hall. There, at work one day, another bomb spattered the room with broken glass, plaster and dirt. The King, like all his subjects, was proud of his bomb, bored his friends telling about it. Never in British history has a monarch seen and talked to so many of his subjects or so fully shared their life...
Luftwaffe raid on her hotel in Palermo, she sat on the floor in her pink pajamas because falling plaster hurt her feet. She went back to bed before the raid was over...