Word: pocks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Viema has little beauty today, though the vestiges are there. the Germans made their last stand against the Russians on the Danube so that the East bank of the River and the central part of the city are terribly battered. Pock marks of the Russian chase cover the walls of buildings even in the Western outskirts. The Viennese hold everyone else responsible for the wreck. They do not yearn for another Anschluss and have no love for the Germans. But they loathe the Russians with a combined intolerance for Slavism, vengeance, and a culture less developed than their...
...Merritt Parkway and most highways leading out of Boston lay buried under a six-inch blanket pock-marked throughout with yawning potholes. Jackknifed trucks and ditched cars stretched along US route 9, with busses travelling only in conveys...
Smoke bombs were dropped by one of the trio described as "a lean thin fellow," while another "pock-marked chap" took command of the cashiers' cage...
...except the employees under the cover of the concealed pistol of the smaller "pock-marked" desperado realized that the two smoke bombs discharged were merely a blind for a robbery...
Approaching the Stadtbahn station, the group met a stream of men & women hurrying home from work. Some started with fright when they spotted the prisoners. Others scowled darkly at the pock-marked Russian Tommy-gunner. Several passers-by produced precious cigaret butts which they pressed into the hands of the prisoners...