Word: stack
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Skeleton Stacks. We went on, and the great size of the establishment of Dachau began to open before us. Buildings and barracks spread on and on. Outside one building, half covered by a brown tarpaulin, was a stack about five feet high and about 20 feet wide of naked dead bodies, all of them emaciated. We went on around this building and came to the central crematory. The rooms here, in order, were: 1) the office where the living and the dead were passed through and where all their clothing was stripped from them; 2) the Brausebad (shower) room, where...
Bodies Like Firewood. With other G.I. sightseers we came up from the cellar and passed into another yard fenced in by a high wooden wall. There was a pile of bodies there, stacked more or less the way I stack my firewood back home, not too carefully. There were men and some of them were naked. They looked strange...
...Hassett left, leaving a stack of state papers within easy reach of the President's chair. The artist sketched while Miss Suckley crocheted. The President unconcernedly shuffled his papers...
...Stack's drugstore in Kansas City a middle-aged man lit a cigaret with a trembling hand. "I got a boy in that 4th Division," he said, "and I don't know whether he's dead or alive. That's murder out there...
...audacious-but it was the calm audacity of a gambler who bets his stack on a four-ace hand. The main striking force of the U.S. Pacific Fleet-so much greater than any other of the world's fleets that such comparisons have become meaningless-steamed undetected, through filthy weather, to within easy fighter-plane range (200 to 300 miles) of Tokyo. It was organized into the Fifth Fleet, under precise, calculating Admiral Raymond Ames Spruance. Its carriers again had become Task Force 58, and were under the command of slight, puckish Vice Admiral Marc Andrew ("Pete") Mitscher...