Word: rescuer
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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After the Fact. In St. Paul, Minn., Richard Starkweather, 19, managed to avoid injury when he fainted at the wheel of his car and came to a stop against a curb, fell out on to the pavement when a rescuer opened the door, and had to be rushed to a hospital for treatment of a head injury...
...first rescue teams to fly through the clouds of volcanic ash to an airstrip near Lamington last week reported at least 50 square miles of formerly jungle-clad hills now a grey-brown desert of pumice dust caking into stone. Said one rescuer: "It was like being on another planet...The haze of steam and smoke issuing from Lamington made the whole thing a nightmare." Said Australian Government Official Claude Champion: "Native bodies were everywhere. Dead natives were hanging in the stripped branches of every tree, and many were caught in the forks of the trees. Apparently they died there...
Wind Hinders Rescuer...
...Rescuers, smeared with blood, lifted out the living and the dead, and the parts of bodies and the briefcases and the clothing. A man sat by a shattered window looking, as one rescuer later recalled, "like he was going on a trip-but the top of his head was cut off." Some bodies had been decapitated; others, living and dead, were smashed and twisted between the ragged chunks of broken steel...
...prisoners were bound by a long rope. As they marched past the handsome NKVD lieutenant, they thought him "a rescuer who had providentially arrived to remove their chains." This feeling was an illusion, of course, for the lieutenant was taking them to Siberia to work as slaves in the gold mines. But he seemed so kind, so eager to treat them as unfortunate men rather than political outcasts, that for a while they could not help loving...