Word: awash
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...another, about all these manifestations, just so he went somewhere. By last week-after months of frantic scheming-millions were vacationing. Long-shuttered estates of the rich were being reopened at Southampton, Easthampton and Newport. New England resorts and beach hotels from Bar Harbor to Sea Island were awash with guests. Most desk clerks were not discussing reservations-except for the summer...
...Liberty ship drifted helplessly away from the tug which was towing her into port. She slid past the islands which ring Halifax's outer harbor, grounded firmly on Lobster Claw Ledge. Rocks under the sea smashed her hull. She lay broken near the land, her mid decks awash...
...Both processing plants and storage houses were awash with eggs. The eggs sold for feed were unfit for human consumption but would help relieve a critical feed shortage...
...prompt to obey. "Yes, sir," mumbled the Negro mess attendants manning an antiaircraft gun; they kept on firing. A19-year-old steward's mate with a broken leg dragged himself back to his post with them. Only when two planes had been shot down and the decks were awash did the men jump into the oily...
...Journal of Madame Giovanni is loaded to the gunwales. The decks are awash. It has everything in its 380 pages, including several earthquakes. Much of it is given over to an exact, sharp-eyed observation of life in the South Sea Islands, California and Mexico, in the decade 1844-54. The observer is Madame Giovanni, 20 when the story opens, slender, beautiful, and a bride. The combination of her loves and adventures, and the businesslike noting of contemporary facts, alternate with the billowy relaxations of Mme. Giovanni's feminine wiles...