Word: sunkenness
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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...
...forces ended the Bismarck Sea action (TIME, March 15) by wiping out barges, lifeboats and rafts from the sunken enemy vessels...
...cluttered office on the ground floor of the Pan American Union's exotic building in Washington, shock-haired Ernesto Galarza gazed thoughtfully through a dirt-dimmed window at the sunken gardens below. What he would do next, now that he had quit his job as Chief of the Union's Division of Labor & Social Information, he did not know. Nor did he care. He had made his point...
...blowing up their guns, destroying their ammunition stores and the concrete artillery emplacements. The great naval arsenal near the harbor mouth blew up before the Germans could reach it. At the docksides and yards smoke billowed from burning fuel stores. When dawn broke, Toulon harbor lay ruined, cluttered with sunken hulks wracked intermittently by dull explosions...