Word: bottomly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...last trip Old Buck was the center of the boldest raid Britain has yet made on the Nazi-held coast of Europe. When a delayed-action fuse finally blasted the five tons of high explosive in her bow and sent her violently to the bottom of St.-Nazaire harbor, she had seen action enough in one night for several nautical lifetimes. There were the demoniacal Commandos ashore, blowing up pumping stations, bridges, buildings. There were the snarling little gunboats wildly blasting away at Nazi pillboxes. There were the frenzied Nazis firing at friend & foe alike. And there were the bombers...
...captain, with his face all bloody, run through the flames along the flying bridge and come aft." In launching, the lifeboat turned over, and Kelly and his shipmates hid under it when the sub cut loose with deck guns. When things quieted down, they clambered up on the bottom of the boat and waited for dawn...
...begins when the great blue herons return from the South to their ancient nesting places in the sycamore trees along the headwaters of Verdigris River. The birds had come; they flopped their ungainly wings, carrying new twigs to the slovenly nests where they have lived for generations. In river-bottom gumbo fields, farm boys trotted behind the plows, picking up angle worms from the fresh furrows. Old William Allen White waxed poetic in his Emporia Gazette over the first yellow crocuses on the Y.W.C.A. lawn. Emporia farmers noted with satisfaction that the first pig litters averaged three more than last...
...second engineer had good reason to be bitter. His false teeth and his ship, equally cherished, were on the Atlantic's bottom, tantalizingly close to the Jersey coast. The lights of a Jersey beach resort had silhouetted the merchantman for the Axis submarine that sent three torpedoes crashing into her. Griped oldster (58) James Robertson...
...York City department-store inventories were 49% above a year ago. Manhattan is the No. 1 U.S. shopping center, but hinterland stores are buying too: total U.S. department-store inventories are well over the 100 mark (1923-25 = par), against 73 a year ago, 54 at depression's bottom...