Word: twos
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...ones and twos, wounded or half-frozen, eight more were tracked down. They left a lot of their blood in the snow. A prison guard and a rancher were also shot during the long night, but 24 hours later only one man was still on the loose. He was 29-year-old Jimmy Sherbondy, who had once killed a policeman...
...concrete-housed Americans as it was for bamboo-sheltered Japanese. He stresses that the only inaccuracy in his description, which includes 300,000 killed and a host of wounded that would tax hospitals as far as St. Louis, is that the bombs will "never again come in ones or twos...
...were the city's most colorful exiles, the remnants of the few hundred Mexicans who had volunteered to fight with France. There was no space for them on returning troopships. The others had been able to get back in ones and twos, as passage offered. The 60 were still waiting...
...Guam, Saipan and other islands long conquered by the U.S., Jap soldiers holed up in the hills still surrender by twos and threes, only occasionally by squads. But on Okinawa, even before the battle had ended, there were some surrenders in platoon strength, a few in greater numbers. Japanese prisoner compounds were populated by the hundreds...
...cannot be expressed in words and even I, as an actual witness, found it impossible to comprehend fully-there was too much of it: it was too contrary to all principles of humanity-and I was coldly stunned. Under the pine trees the scattered dead were lying, not in twos or threes or dozens, but in thousands. The living tore ragged clothing from the corpses to build fires over which they boiled pine needles and roots for soup. Little children rested their heads against the stinking corpses of their mothers, too nearly dead themselves to cry. A man hobbled...