Word: awash
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Thirteen torpedoed British merchant seamen scrambled from their swamped lifeboat into a half-ship they found floating in mid-Atlantic. They wolfed the canned chicken, hardtack and liquor they found, but their "SS Stern" settled slowly. When its deck was barely awash they had a farewell party They drank their fill and hornpiped to the jangling tones of a portable phonograph. None of them remembered much after that until a passing ship picked them...
Author Ormsbee's battlefield scenes are just as tough. His no man's land is awash with blood. His hospital interludes are richly orgiastic. Lying in his hospital bed, Hero Abner hears "the nurses being chased through the halls, laughing and screaming...
...Germany did not need to go to war for oil; her underground rocks are undoubtedly awash with...
...Landing stages are nearly awash from the weight of iron and steel products ready to be shipped north or south, when fat, white side-wheelers pull up, conveyor belts immediately move incoming cargo to freight trains paralleling the river, while sunburned, sweating dockers fill up the space with outgoing materials...
...other end of the rue de la Huchette stood the Hotel du Caveau. Thither Suzanne steered Author Paul. After losing Suzanne, Author Paul sat down at a table awash with Dubonnet. "There," he says, "I found Paris-and France...