Word: sunken
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Hardest hit are the railroad and dock areas. In the harbor a sunken liner's funnels still stick out of the water. The remains of one or two ferries clutter the slipways. Concrete piers have been cut in two. Railway cars are smashed. The scene recalls the earthquake of 1908, when 91% of Messina's buildings were destroyed and 78,000 of its residents perished...
...Roots. Professorial chambers are anywhere from twice to four times the size of those enjoyed at most rich universities. Paleographer Elias Avery Lowe got extra windows so that he might decipher ancient texts without eyestrain. Archeologist Ernst Herzfeld got a sunken floor to admit outsize cases for Persian treasures. Salaries are above general scholarly levels. No professor has administrative chores. Professors may have vacations of about three months twice a year-but rarely take them...
...with solicitude sailors carried up the gangway ancient models of sailing ships, knickknacks, family portraits framed in lifebelts, old seascapes." When the destroyer left, before dawn, Voyetekhov went underground to Naval headquarters, nerve center of the defense. Among the activities directed there was a system of salvage from sunken supply ships in the harbor. Divers were sent out every night to bring up baskets full of shells, food and medical supplies. Voyetekhov's narrative here includes one of several bits of transparently invented dialogue...
Shean watched the first rounds of the London blitz from a sunken road near Gravesend. While the Nazi bombers came over in formations of 30, a suburban bus drew up. "All hell seemed to have broken loose in the air above and all around us, "but the bus conductor sat quietly totting up his receipts. The guard told a story: "There was a bloody monkey hanging by his bloody tail in the jungle . .. and along came a bloody air-raid warden. One monkey says to the other monkey, 'Look out, Jock, here's this bloody bastard comin...
...snakes, lizards. Resourceful, they grew some of their own food by planting small gardens of taro and kaukau (something like yams). When they could, they killed game like cassowary or ratite bird, but meat was a rarity. Once they found some canned salmon that had washed ashore from a sunken Jap supply ship. For ten long, horrifying months they fought sickness and hid from Japs in New Britain's jungle. Last week the world learned that by sheerest luck they had been rescued...