Word: foams
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...location, somewhere in the Atlantic, driving around bathyscapes in search of the ship "even God couldn't sink." Some of the submarines "implode" (burst apart at the seams to the detriment of their crews), but others survive to pump the hull of the 900-foot liner full of foam ("Gillette Foamy is rich and thick enough..."). A few dynamite charges shake the hull free of the bottom and then, glug, glug, glug, here she comes, surging to the surface where she sits, muddy and wet but otherwise unharmed...
...create an incredibly safe, trusting environment. At home I use an eight foot by ten foot box with four inches of foam and soft music playing through speakers," he says. "The main question is, are you really doing exactly what you want to be doing every moment of your life? The sessions move through emotions, diet, wardrobe, home environment--you pick up every single thing in the house and ask 'Do I have a totally alive relation to you?'--job environment, and finally relationships. We don't replace old dogma with new dogma, we don't tell them...
Just eleven hours before the start of the mission, a sailor accidentally hit a fire control switch, dousing five of the RH-53s with sea water and foam. The aircraft were rinsed with fresh water and inspected. No visible damage was found...
...progressive perceptions of death. An early casualty seems almost comic, "marching blindly to Valhalla" off a landing barge into a geyser of exploding water. A hard eye and grim taste for simile take over in a description of a dying German truck driver, "hiccuping great gouts of cherry-pink foam . . . to the accompaniment of a sound like a slush pump." Still later, Mowat sees with surreal detachment the upper body of a man falling slowly backward while his legs and trunk remain standing...