Word: weirdly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...plays eerie tricks with light. The sky appears leaden, like a snowy sky in Europe, or is crossed by great bands of black, red, and grey. Moist surfaces-such as sweat patches on a horse or the wet concrete of a swimming pool at an irrigation settlement-are a weird glowing purplish color. The sun is entirely obscured, or shows like a wan full moon. Dead trees, a tragic number, loom through the hot murk in a variety of fantastic shapes as though they died in agony. . . . Where the dust clears a little, a few dead sheep may be seen...
...shore and without even getting our feet wet we ran up the steep beach and started digging in. ... That first night can only be described as a nightmare in hell. The Japs rained heavy mortars and rockets and artillery on the entire area, and the beach was weird with the yellow-light of star shells and the red flash of mortars that fell all around...
...prisoners had all been collected-Hubbard, Gordon, Colonel James Duckworth, the sick. There were some 500 of them. Herded by their rescuers, in weird and motley columns they plunged westward through fields, over streams and across the rice paddies toward the American lines...
Between Life & Death. In the middle of November 1939, Jan Karski, then a 25-year-old Polish lieutenant, made his way into Warsaw. A student before the war, cheerful, optimistic, he had escaped from a train bound for a German work camp. A weird, funereal light lay over the city and suburbs. The mind of Poland had been shaken by disaster, and in a twilight of reason, people moved half automatically, midway between life & death. They stalked along the roads sightlessly, as if hypnotized; they held themselves stiffly, as if all their will power was needed to keep them from...
...fanaticism is also disturbing. A Brooklyn private, describing the banzai shout, told Bigart: "It had kind of a weird sound, like Ladies' Day at Ebbets Field." Wrote Bigart: "The German . . . rarely tries suicide tactics. When a mission becomes hopeless the German gives up. But the Japanese never does...