Word: strewn
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Davidson thinks that extensive dismemberment among the victims made the San Diego crash even more horrifying than most major accidents. Parts of bodies were strewn over lawns, houses and roads, and police said they could not walk down the street without stepping on human tissue. Emergency personnel were overwhelmed. They spent their first minutes in a semi-daze, trying to cover up the bloodiest scenes. Police who arrested people-for taking airplane parts or for not leaving the scene of a disaster-coped better. For such officers, says Psychologist Steven Padgitt, "there was some sense of purpose, some sense...
...When she died last week at the age of 80, from the complications of lymphoma, an illness she had kept secret for twelve years, she still ranked high on any list of the world's most admired women. The dumpy, doughty lady with her drab dresses, hair strewn with gray, and ever present cigarette was a figure of legend, and yet historians were divided on whether a cold-eyed examination of her record would ultimately justify the adulation she sought and gained...
...sidewalks around downtown hotels seem to be particularly thick with these visiting firemen nowadays, it is because the nation is in the grip of what can only be called convention fever. The symptoms: an eruption of hats, badges, buttons, sashes, brochures, luggage-strewn hotel lobbies, stackable ball room chairs, green baize tabletops, insulated plastic water pitchers, WELCOME banners, note-festooned message boards, firm handshakes, hearty guffaws, setups in the hospitality suite and dark circles under the eyes. The diagnosis: an insatiable urge to meet and greet, gather and blather with one's suppliers, customers, lodge members, old friends, perfect strangers...
...flower-strewn steps, the mood of the civil rights rebellion of the 1960s was evoked as the crystalline voice of Folk Singer Joan Baez led the assembled marchers in the familiar songs: Kumbaya, Amazing Grace and Oh, Freedom. More candles were lit, more wreaths dropped on the steps, and an undercurrent of bitterness broke through the sadness. "Are you happy, Anita?" asked one crudely lettered sign in cruel reference to homosexuality's hated foe, Anita Bryant...
...former sprinter, would make a run for the gate. The rest of us would run interference, grabbing sky cabs, ticket checkers and paging people who might help stop the flight. When we got to the airport the chaperone left hell in his path, a chaos of people and bags strewn on the linoleum floor...