Word: knee-deep
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...last seen knee-deep in the muck at Prince Williams Sound, Alaska, checking out the damage from the Exxon Valdez oil spill...
...your hackles up, California. We are here to discuss that choke-thy- neighbor word, water. Here being a quintessentially innocuous looking and provocative setting, the Los Angeles water intercept on Lee Vining Creek in the eastern Sierras. On a brilliant winter afternoon, knee-deep snow covers the intake pond behind a small concrete dam, and a Steller's jay swoops among the evergreens. Mount Dana, lacking only an Ansel Adams moon, is lit up crisply against a cloudless sky. And in the background (the sticking point), there is the sound of rushing water...
...capital city of Dhaka, where the President's residence was knee-deep in water, streets had been transformed into canals. Boatmen were charging whatever the market would bear to move people to safe ground, but some clung to the roofs of their flooded huts to ward off looters. Ricksha Driver Mohammed Nasser, 18, boasted that he was making $5 a day carrying passengers through flooded streets. He will need the money: the shanty he shared with his mother and sister was washed away...
...Knee-deep in night...
...Hull, Dolan spent the past month digging into the finances and organization of Jim Bakker's Praise the Lord and other major television ministries. While waiting to see Oral Roberts at his university in Tulsa, Dolan came upon the famous faith healer, his pants rolled up, knee-deep in a medium-size artificial pond, where he was anointing 200 of the faithful. Recalls Dolan: "That scene gave me an insight into the impact of these television preachers on their followers...