Word: steeping
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...drove an open car on an exploring trip past Puget Sound inlets, where white salmon trollers and log booms lay moored. Lounging at the wheel, he followed the blue salt water of Hood Canal which lies, fjord-like, in the shadow of steep Olympic Mountain foothills...
Debit Side. To the U.S., the cost of victory on Okinawa was steep, and to some jittery observers it might even seem staggering. But the island had been secured in 82 days, only twelve days more than the time originally estimated for its capture. In overall U.S. casualties it was indeed the bloodiest campaign of the Central and Western Pacific, but in proportion to the harm done the enemy, it was far from being the most costly. At Tarawa, where an estimated 5,000 Japs died or were captured, 1,000 Americans died and 2,000 were wounded-an overall...
...WEASEL IS BUILT AROUND A HULL. . . . IT TRAVELS THROUGH DEEP MUD, SNOW, SAND, ... UP & DOWN STEEP RIVER BANKS AND THROUGH DEEP WATER. LET'S GIVE THE JEEP THE CREDIT IT WELL DESERVES BUT THE MEN AND WOMEN WHO BUILD THE WEASEL ARE JUSTIFIABLY JEALOUS OF THE SINGULAR ACCOMPLISHMENTS OF THEIR OWN BABY...
...people remained on the ranch and in the town. Realtor Ben Scherck had scores of queries from interested people, but doubted that they would buy (one hopeful client believed the ranch could be converted into a helicopter factory). Most would also find the price ($125,000) a little steep. Last week Scherck got tick fever, retired to his bed, groaning, "God, I ache all over." But he brightened at a visit from a rough, rich Texas cattleman, who sounded as though he might fit Lost Cabin...
...confused. Vous make le steep turn trop bankay...