Word: steeping
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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They were as ready as British ingenuity and foresight could make them. Their cisterns, filled with rain water from great catchments on the Rock's steep eastern side, held 140,000,000 gallons of water...
French officers reported that in some tight spots, going up steep ground under blinding barrage smoke, young German soldiers advanced clutching each other's belts. They were mowed down in solid platoons. But the shouted war song of wave after wave of those still to come drowned out the dying screams of those ahead. Over this human pandemonium roared the steady thunder of German artillery blasting the infantry's way, French artillery replying with sheets of screaming metal to stop the endless horde, and roaring swarms of airplanes from both sides diving and darting over the battle...
...late Juan de la Cierva Jr.'s autogiro used helicopter principles in achieving steep take-offs and landings, but is no true helicopter...
Well, maybe not full tilt, but a score or more "hard-rock" miners are gouging, chipping, blasting at those cinnabar-streaked granite tunnel walls, bringing out sacks of ore every day, to be "cooked" in the retorts there on the steep shank of the mountain. A week or so ago "Hap" brought out one rock that was might' nigh pure cinnabar. It weighed 130 Ib. He brought it through seven miles of tunnel from the very gizzard of the ancient mine...
...west of Namsos roared a wide swarm of Germany's deadliest aircraft of all; Junkers Ju.87 dive-bombers ("Stukas"), which had not been given a major workout since they pulverized prostrate Poland. These speedy, relatively small single-motored ships have stout wings to pull them out of long, steep power dives at 430 m.p.h. Their crews are specially trained to stand the pressures of such performance. They carry only one 1,100-lb. or two 500-lb. bombs. These they aim by pointing the plane's nose at the target during its screaming dive. Theory is that...