Word: rescuer
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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...
...read aloud page after page of [G. K.] Chesterton's The Thing, tearing out each page as I finished it and stuffed it inside my jacket to keep me warm . . . The third day, I spent solving mathematical problems in my head, then I saw the feet of a rescuer being lowered to me from above...
...every other soul aboard, the sea seemed empty, but the ship swung into a figure eight. Suddenly all saw the wet and bobbing head of Tomas Montanez and watched a small boat put out to rescue him. He was almost unconscious; his rescuer had to seize his hair to keep him from sinking...