Word: wade
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...blanket, were laid in the hole. The bulldozer pushed some more dirt over them and that was all there was to it (until burial parties got around later to a formal funeral). Lines of medical corpsmen were bringing the bodies in as fast as they could find stretchers and wade into the shallow water...
...beach from the first wave. They need men bad. I can't take you all the way in because we've got to get back out here safely and get some more men in there quick. But I'll let you out where you can wade in." The men crouched low. The little vessel was loaded with silent prayers...
...Stretcher bearers carrying out casualties often have to wade waist-deep in muddy water. The jungle stinks with a dead, musty odor which is even worse in the forward areas where the bodies of the Japs lie buried...
...York City's School Superintendnt John E. Wade mulled over a Public Education Association report on the workings of "released time" for religious education. The surveyors decided to continue opposing this system, as they had since it was begun in 1941. They found that many released children (more than 80% of whom are Roman Catholic, in the 89 New York City schools surveyed) did not turn up at their chosen religious schools. Teachers had difficulty in checking, since they were ordered not to comment in school on whether or not a child took religious instructions...
...surround Bunk with colleagues from the New Orleans past. They found Papa Mutt Carey, famous "dirty" trumpeter, working as a Pullman porter on the Southern Pacific. They got Kid Ory, greatest of oldtime tailgate* trombonists, from Los Angeles, where he had been raising chickens. They tracked down Clarinetist Wade Whaley at the Moore shipyards on San Francisco Bay. Ringing doorbells in San Francisco's Negro section, they finally located Bertha Gonsoulin, onetime pianist for Jelly Roll Morton and King Oliver. They added local Negro talent...