Word: sunkenness
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...recreation building with courts, rinks and swimming pools, 5) a large hotel especially designed for conventions of out-of-town industrialists, 6) a fashion center for wholesaling, distribution and display of the garment industry, 7) many-storied underground garages, wide sidewalks, rooftop restaurants, glass-enclosed subway entrances and combination sunken-garden and retail shopping areas...
There is a storm within him, and at sea he is at his best. For his staff service in the Atlantic during World War I, he won the Navy Cross. For his brilliant salvage of the sunken submarine S-51 (lost with 33 lives) in 1925, he got the Distinguished Service Medal. When the S-4 was rammed and lost with 40 men in 1927, he was again called to salvage duty, had the rare Gold Star added to his D.S.M...
...Zealand officer, a former dairy farmer from Auckland, told how he and his comrades butchered a gang of Germans trying to cross a stream in one of the Olympic passes: "We sank one boat after another. After two hours the river was teeming with half-sunken boats drifting downstream, and with splashing, drowning men. Some of the boats were littered with dead and wounded men. We got sick of killing them. It was mass slaughter." Parachutists in grey shorts and heavy grey jackets, armed with submachine guns, floated to the aid of the men in the river. "Our position appeared...
...entire city block and cost some $600,000 (its equivalent in Gothic would cost an estimated 30% more). When finished early in 1942 it will house the religious activities of 1,500 Disciples of Christ in two severe, flat-roofed units joined by a two-story bridge across a sunken terrace and a 140-by-120 reflecting pool. And perhaps its sheer 166-foot tower will beacon religious architecture back into the advancing stream of history...
Tobruch looked to be an easier place to capture. Like Bardia, it was protected by a semicircle of forts, 16 clusters of six sunken casemates each, with another chain three to five miles outside the town within the outer ring. But Tobruch was thought to be undermanned and underequipped. Half the Italian artillery, ammunition and transports, one-third of the Italian Army was already in British hands. Moreover, Tobruch was known to be dependent on tankers from Dérna for its water supply. And Italian captives in Bardia were sure Tobruch could not hold out. Said one colonel...