Word: steeping
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...course, the sad-faced bankers were thinking chiefly in terms of international exchange - particularly pound sterling, whose steep decline in the past few weeks threatens to bring on a crisis in the gold bloc lands and touch off a world race for currency depreciation...
...sail. Bligh and his companions won through to Kupang after 43 nightmarish days. Meantime the mutineers returned to Tahiti, whence nine of them set out again with a Tahitian princess for the first officer, eleven other native women and six native men. On Pitcairn Island, a tiny, wooded, steep, craggy scrap of land in the South Pacific, they beached and burned the Bounty, hoped they were safe from reprisal. They were not safe from one another. Unbridled drinking and mating, suicides, a war between natives and whites, between women and men, left alive one man, a handful of women...
Walking along Washington's 24th Street at dusk, Secretary of the Treasury Henry Morgenthau came to a steep, icy hill. At the top of the hill stood his young daughter Joan with a long bobsled. Mr. Morgenthau threw himself flat on the sled. Joan climbed on his back. Down the hill they sped, to stop in front of the Czechoslovakia!! Legation. Secretary Morgenthau & daughter trudged up the hill, zipped down again, coasted until dinner time...
Bumping down the steep lava-baked slopes of Mt. Vesuvius one day last week, a tourist-laden car of the funicular railway jumped its cable, gathered speed, left the rails, crashed headlong into an electric power pole, killed a French honeymoon couple, an Italian guide, four others, injured nine...
...obtained. On June 11, 1918, the St. Stephan, flagship of the Austrian Navy, was attacked in the Adriatic by Italian torpedo boats. A torpedo found its mark and the St. Stephan began to list and sink with terrible rapidity. Frantic Austrian sailors are to be seen clambering up her steep deck and over onto her almost horizontal side. At that point the ship quivers convulsively, shakes many of them off into the water. Others manage to stay on the St. Stephan's upside-down hull as she turns completely over. Finally she and they go down together...