Word: steeped
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When I was a little chunk of a shirt-tailed lad, a-hoeing corn on the steep hillside, I'd get to the end of a row and look up Troublesome Creek and wonder ij anybody would ever come to larn the young 'uns. Nobody ever come in. Nobody ever went out. We jist growed up and never knowed nothin'. I can't read nor write; many of my chilluns can't read nor write, but I have grands and greats as is the purtiest speakin' and the easiest larnin' of any chilluns...
Even so, she managed to stagger up to the attic, crawled out of a window to the steep roof. There she clung while her husband's murderers ransacked the house, finally went away. All night she lay there, afraid they would come back. In the morning she was discovered, finally rescued by the Stockton Volunteer Fire Department. While Sheriff J. William Hall investigated, groups of enraged men started scouring Worcester County, searching Negro shacks, barns, cypress swamps...
...desperation Pilot Alcock set the Corsair down with a sickening crunch that stove in her bottom. As she started to flounder, he deliberately hurtled her at full throttle against the steep shore. While his five frightened passengers jumped to safety he kept his engines roaring wide open, managed to hold the ship against the bank until his crew unloaded the mail, jumped clear. As the 2,960-h.p. engines finally sputtered and died, some $200,000 worth of flying boat sank back into the tropic Dangu...
...miles per hour in a steep dive and went straight down without stopping. I tried to get out of the cockpit, but was jammed in with a stuck roof. When I was almost out of breath I managed to break free and come to the surface. My observer was killed at once, for I never saw him again...