Word: sunkenness
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...great old army tank, hit decades ago by an enemy shell, sunken in a shallow lagoon. The iron flaps of the tank's turret are rusted open, steadily washed over by the waves; its corroded gun defiantly trains on trenches and machine-gun nests, long buried in the sands of a deserted beach...
...Susan looked alarmingly emaciated, with sunken eyes and fragile, sticklike arms and legs. Though she was 5 ft. 5 in. tall, she weighed only 70 lbs. and scorned all but the tiniest morsels of food. Amazingly, Susan believed herself to be too fat and maintained a frenzied level of physical exercise to help keep any weight off her scrawny frame...
Altogether, divers and dredgers retrieved 8,524 pieces of unexploded ordnance, 127 pontoon-bridge sections, 16 trucks, eight tanks, 104 small boats and barges, ten large sunken wrecks and 15 airplanes, not to mention oil drums, anchors, beer cans and one old toilet. Some 686,000 mines and other explosives were removed from both banks. In addition, the causeway built by the Israelis to supply their bridgehead on the west bank during the 1973 war had to be pulled away. The Egyptians spent a total of $288 million on the clearing effort, the Americans another $20 million...
...Naval Shipyard, where a 29-ft. decline in the land level has forced the Navy, oil companies and others to build flood-control dikes. Besides twisting railroad tracks, crushing oil-well casings and undermining buildings, the slumping of the ground has also triggered small earthquakes. To jack up the sunken terrain, the city of Long Beach has been forcing water back into the ground...
...different matter. It is pharaonic: a nucleus of ritual objects meant to serve the dead man in his next life, immured at the center of a transparent pyramid. Only a mummy is absent, but the eye of an irreverent visitor may easily stray to the center of the sunken atrium, half expecting to see a sarcophagus. Roche-Dinkeloo's design is elegant, icy and inflated. Lehman agreed that the new wing should have almost the same proportions as the Met's Great Hall - thus ensuring a large abstract monument to himself - but he also wanted to commemorate...