Word: pocks
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...night I joined Shmuel Schiff as he made his watchman's rounds. We stumbled through the dark across whirls of rusty barbed wire, past shoebox houses pock-marked with bullet holes. He poked his pistol at the heavy-meshed windows, to make sure that they were strong enough to keep out hand grenades. A rifle barked in the distance. We turned about at the end of the village near an abandoned house. A widow had lived there until one morning last June, when three men poked dynamite underneath the floor and blew her to pieces. U.N. officers tracked...
Salvador Paz Guerra, forger and prison-jumper, who had smilingly lighted a cigarette when a judge gave him 20 years, had to be dragged from his cell. Jose Colombres, a six-foot, pock-marked murderer, knelt tearfully and begged to stay. When a convicted murderess' name was called, she split the air with a scream, "Virgin of Guadalupe, have mercy...
...Imjin River, armed Red guards told the convoy commander that it could not pass. There was a wary and polite argument. The man who pretended to be in charge of the Red roadblock was a nervous young North Korean lieutenant. The man actually in charge was a small, pock-marked Chinese. As the dispute waxed hotter, the Chinese coached the young North Korean more & more openly...
When the war ended, Bundy left the plumbing, the pock-marked statues and military affairs, to resume the status of Junior Fellow at Harvard which he had been awarded in 1941. He did not stay for long because in 1946 he was invited to work with Henry Stimson, former secretary of War, on the later's memoirs...
...frequently takes a poke at U.S. manners & morals, usually sticks to such personal problems as Porky's courting of Mam'selle Hepzibah, a skunk with a French accent. To help Porky, Albert and Churchy offer their services as serenaders, sing in typical Pogo style: "Oh, pick a pock of peach pits, pockets full of pie, foreign twenty blackboards baked until they...