Word: barely
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Legends piled up fast. One told of a sea-crashed pilot who was found in his little rubber boat, paddling hotly with his bare hands toward Sikaiana and fighting off rescuers. Another related that a certain patrol-plane crew, overcome by tales of beauty and hospitality, got off course somehow and had to sit down for repairs at, of all places, Sikaiana. Then airmen of a rival service learned what had happened...
Reeling Rats. George Hoyt of Berkeley, Calif, said he had found that the best way to catch rats was to feed them frozen pudding flavored with sherry: "I got those rats so tight I could catch them with my bare hands...
...reconnaissance the same day brought photographs which told some of the story. In the valleys of the Eder and Ruhr, where the dams were blasted by the mines, there was terrible destruction. The waters of the Eder, released by the breaching of the Eder Dam, had swept the valley bare, flooding the airfield at Fritzlar, sweeping through farms and villages beyond the industrial town of Kassel, which was partly inundated (see map). The Ruhr, swollen as if by a tidal wave from the blasting of the Möhne and the Sorpe dams, had flooded town after town...
...still squats in the harbor mud. The battleship Arizona went under on an even keel, but her bow is still out of sight, the remnant of her stern only a bit above water. The target ship Utah is still turtle-turned, her big broad bottom hot and bare beneath the sun. Within the three hulks rest the skeletons...
...packing box in his room, flicking pieces of paper into the wastebasket in the middle of the bare floor. Then he heard a knock on the door. He got up slowly and opened it, but there was nobody there...