Word: rodes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Death by Fire. We walked back into the sun. There was no horror left in Maidenek. It had evaporated with the Germans. We rode a little distance to some cabbage patches. The big, leafy cabbages were covered with a sooty, grey dust and next to them were high mounds of grey brown stuff. "This," said Kudriavtsev, "is fertilizer. A layer of human bones, a layer of human ashes, a layer of manure. This is German food production. Kill people; fertilize cabbages...
That night silver-haired Under Secretary Edward R. Stettinius Jr., head of the U.S. delegation, entertained at Washington's swank Carlton Hotel. The menu: broiled chicken, peach ice cream, California wines. Next day: high tea at Blair House. Each day the delegates rode out to Dumbarton Oaks in Army cars for a two-hour morning session and another two-hour grind in the afternoon...
...beaches but a new wave of American tourists had arrived. Through the nodding summer countryside came the faint chatter of machine-gun fire, the roar of a big gun, the crack of a rifle. On dusty roads columns of tanks grumbled by, and above them fighter planes rode busily to work...
...called for a tank, rode atop it in a rain of fire as it sprayed the hedgerows. The tank driver was wounded. Paddy crawled down, went forward afoot. A sniper's bullet got him as he led his patrol into the shelter of a farmhouse...
...armed truce that exists between mules and plowboys during the long cotton-growing season was broken for one day only. The jockeys rode bareback (or muleback as Deltans say) with the assistance of knees, heels, hands and profanity. What the mules lacked in speed they made up "for in mulishness. They balked, wheeled, vaulted over fences, ran countertrackwise. The crowd howled with delight and kept pulling at its corn...