Word: sunkenness
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...popular belief is that the lemmings' persistent dash to death is an instinctive longing for their former home in the sunken continent of Atlantis. But, notes Elton, the lemmings also surge eastward into the Baltic, northward into the Arctic. Not the whither but the whence, says Elton, explains the lemming migrations. Overcrowding and lack of food in their mountain homes move the lemmings to seek Lebensraum elsewhere. (A few reactionaries stay behind to breed the nucleus of another horde.) The lemmings are great swimmers, and since they have no way of knowing how vast the seas and oceans...
...conversations [in Washington] were concerned almost entirely with nothing but the movements of ships, guns, troops, aircraft and measures to be taken to combat losses at sea and replacement, and more than replacement, of sunken tonnage...
When the Jap struck Cebu, he struck with overwhelming force. One day ten transports and five warships stood off the harbor where the rusty bones of sunken ships thrust above the blue water, and the skeletons of destroyed oil installations lay dead against the background of waving palms...
...everything in sight. Before 9 o'clock the Japs were pretty well silenced, and the survivors sat among the smoking shambles of a promising advance base. The Japs had lost three four-motored seaplanes, two patrol boats, some dredges and fuel barges, a few prisoners picked up from sunken craft. U.S. loss: one plane...
Survivors of a sunken U.S. tanker told of a submarine that callously ran down two lifeboats and a liferaft. But another sub commander gallantly permitted a fully lighted neutral vessel to approach a sinking freighter and pick up survivors...