Word: sliming
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...vessels lie on Lake Nemi's bottom. Centuries of slime cover them, and rocks that have slipped from the steep sides of the Alban crater which contains the lake. One of them, the smaller, is certainly Caligula's. Treasure hunters since the 15th century have tried to raise the barge, un successfully and to its great damage. Some years ago one adventurer yanked loose a lead pipe. On it was an inscription which referred to Caligula. The float was decorated with marble, mosaics and carved woodwork...
Under the microscope a drop of pond scum can give hours of delightful study. What feels between the fingers like slime is, microscopically, an open lake crowded with queer vegetable and animal life...
...like watching some horrible reptile die-something that writhed and spit slime though dead a thousand times...
...been raised from the bottom of the sea, exactly 15 minutes less than three months after it had been gored by the Coast Guard destroyer Paulding (TIME, Dec. 26). It was towed to the Navy Yard at Boston for inspection. Six bodies covered with mud and slime were found in the torpedo compartment. But nowhere was a written record of the horrible last hours of those bodies...
...time it reached the Pacific Ocean, 75 miles away, it was little more than a malicious trickle. But behind were the wiped-out towns of Newhall, Saugus, Piru, Fillmore, Santa Paula; 305 dead humans, thousands of dead animals; little white flags designating corpses found by rescue parties; muddy-yellowish slime and jagged stumps where once were orange blossoms; rotting carcasses on the $500,000 ranch of Cinemactor Harry Carey; total estimated property damage of $20,000,000. The revolting waters had tossed one sleeping farmer in a lean-to shack to the top of the canyon, saving his life...