Word: steeped
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When placed just right, it throws most of the rubble over the lip of a steep-sided hole. A 100-kiloton shot should be placed 600 ft. below the surface, while a one-megaton shot calls for a depth...
Brazilians like to think that their country is so big that no abyss could possibly hold it. They may be right. With half of South America's people and nearly half of its area, Brazil is huge, rich, and living on the steep sides of an abyss...
...Algiers. It was a sporadic struggle, and after four days it subsided. Except for an Algerian plane that bombed and strafed a Moroccan town some 200 miles away, the war consisted mostly of sniping and artillery salvos, exchanged over a no man's land of rocky ridges, steep ravines and huge boulders jutting out of the desert sand...
...hours before McNamara's arrival, a Boeing 707 jet approaching Saigon's airport was winged by a .30-cal. bullet that punctured an oil line, forcing the craft to land on three engines. Playing it safe, McNamara's silver Air Force jet swooped in at a steep angle to avoid ground fire...
...Russian gymnacrobats begin their act by holding themselves in the air at arm's length from vertical poles while they spin around in circles, smiling. An alpine aerialist climbs a high wire 45° steep with two women standing on his head. Four girls in sequined lavender bikinis dance on a big coffee table, going through motions that could be called sexnastics...