Word: awash
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True enough to the seven-leagued book, Carton is introduced as an untrustworthy, melancholy rummy-brilliant lawyer and all that, but essentially a tosspot. Bogarde flips his banister's wig over happily married Lucic, and from then on, both sides of the English Channel are awash in his nobility. Director Ralph Thomas leaps like a mountain goat from peak to peak: Lucie's love for Charles Darnay, the revolutionary mobs swarming in the streets of Paris, and finally Sydney Carton's self-sacrificing death to save Darnay. But inevitably the film must miss many of the deeper...
...sleek bow awash with silver spray, Columbia slipped across the finish line a mile and a quarter or 8 minutes, 20 seconds ahead of the broad-breasted challenger...
...Quemoy and Matsu are attacked, "would not wait until the situation was in extremis" before going in. One reason: the Communists have made clear that the offshore islands are but the first step to Formosa. Though the U.S. would obviously not fight over possession of the tiniest islands, "perhaps awash part of the time," it had drawn its no-trespassing line to include the ones that counted...
...dark of a windy evening last week a waterlogged raft drifted with the waves of the South Pacific, as it had for four months past. The deck was awash in 3 ft. of water; to the roof of the deckhouse there clung five sick and starving men, Eric de Bisschop and his four-man crew. Ahead of them lay the foam-edged sickle of the reef of Rakahanga in the northern Cook Islands. They had already missed landfalls at the Tuamotus, at Starbuck and Penrhyn Islands. There was no option but to shoot the reef at Rakahanga in the hope...
...Norman Sax, of Los Angeles, got a 14-year-old patient, a Pekinese named Duke, with his lungs so awash that the least exertion set him to puffing and wheezing. The diagnosis was obvious: congestive heart failure. Dr. Sax injected a diuretic to help clear the fluid from Duke's lungs, prescribed half a grain of digitalis daily for the heart. To ease Duke's last days and his owner's anguish, Dr. Sax sent an oxygen tent to the house for use in wheezing attacks, kept him dosed with cortisone. Duke wheezed through 2½ more...