Word: sodden
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...tiny, heat-sodden office building of the Cartersville (Ga.) State Prison camp sat Warden Arthur W. Clay: a stocky, tight-lipped man with hair clipped high about his ears, his white shirt open at the neck, his wash trousers hitched up above the garterless white socks...
...Munda airfield on this August afternoon was not in the gutted, smoldering landscape. It was wholly due to the presence there of dirty, sour-smelling, bloodied American troops poking about in the smoky rubble looking for souvenirs. Among their souvenirs were 1,671 dead Japanese (so far counted), sodden, mustard-colored bags of dusty, mustard-colored flesh ballooning n the humid sunlight, attracting only flies and burial squads. Soon to be souvenirs were isolated Jap units which had taken refuge in the slimy shadow of nearby man grove swamps. A few of the estimated 5,000 of the original garrison...
...hear upon the sodden floor...
...save you," said a seaman, as he was lowered over the side to give a hand. From either side desolate, streaming figures were fished from the water. One gasped a weak "Heil Hitler" and an angry seaman threatened him with an oar. Wet, exhausted, stripped of their sodden clothes, they were given thick, white blankets stamped U.S.N. Soon mess stewards were passing hot coffee to Americans and Germans alike...
...things crop up to disturb Timar's sodden conscience. As they travel to their new home, Adèle disappears for hours to parley with a native chief. Then she suddenly goes back to Libreville, begging Timar to wait patiently till she returns. But the lonely Timar has learned that Adèle herself killed the native waiter, who had seen her leaving Timar's bedroom and threatened blackmail. He has also found that her parleys with the native chief were to bribe him to fix the murder on an innocent tribesman. She has gone to Libreville...