Word: sunkenness
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...interior had been crippled by repeated air bombing. Most Southampton warehouses were destroyed or damaged. The King George V graving dock, only one in England big enough to accommodate giantesses like the Queen Mary, was out of commission with smashed floodgates. The Empress basin was blocked by a sunken tanker, its wharves torn by gaping holes. Leaving port the master of the Magalhaes counted 23 wrecks in the Solent. "South England is dying," he concluded, "no miracle can stem the tide...
...moated castle of Wynendaele, south of Bruges, the pale young man with sunken eyes and rumpled curly brown hair faced another sleepless night. For 14 days he had watched terror-stricken people fleeing across the fertile fields and meadows of North Flanders. For 14 nights he had seen the moonlit May sky turn murky yellow from the glow of burning villages. Four-fifths of his country had been devastated and overrun; how many of his countrymen had been slaughtered he did not know. As Commander in Chief of the Belgian Army holding the Allied left flank, he had seen...
...York managers sat up and took notice. Two months ago, when he knocked out Tippy Larkin in one round at Madison Square Garden for his tenth successive victory, knowing New York fight fans became aware of the latest pugilistic freak: a hollow-cheeked, sunken-eyed 132-pounder, with the legs of a flyweight, the shoulders of a lightweight, the forearms of a middleweight. Somewhere in those forearms there was an arsenal of TNT. Seven of his opponents in a row had fallen like tenpins...
...loss of perhaps 1,500 troops was not a disaster-not if the French estimate of 14,000 Nazis lost on sunken transports was anywhere near true. The bomb damage done to Allied warships off Norway, where so many were exposed, may have enhanced Allied respect for Nazi air power, but did not wreck the Allies' naval balance sheet. After what they did to the German Navy, they still have a wide edge in sea power. Their air power is improving. Unless Mussolini should find in Hitler's "battleship bombed" story (see below) the inspiration to make Italy...
...must have known that she was the armed tender for the late raider Admiral Graf Spee, a ship sought .furiously by the British Navy because she was reported to ' carry, in verminous prison quarters below decks, between 300 and 400 British seamen taken from the Spee'?, seven sunken victims (TIME...