Word: sunkenness
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...coal miner and later as a supervisor during the building of the Moscow Metro came in handy when I began trying to think of ways we could hide our missile sites from enemy reconnaissance. It occurred to me that since missiles are cylindrical, we could put them into sunken covered shafts...
...swampland, thereby opening an overland link between India and China. Though officially retired, Wheeler was recalled to service by the U.N. following the 1956 Israeli-Egyptian war and, at age 71, directed a multinational salvage crew that within four months cleared the Suez Canal of more than 40 sunken ships...
...Link was trying to determine how successful the project had been. Suddenly, Sea-Link's crew heard the harsh, rasping sound of metal rubbing against metal. Apparently pushed off course by an unexpectedly strong current, the sub had become ensnarled in cables and other debris around the sunken warship. "I'm hung up," radioed Sea-Link's pilot Archibald ("Jock") Menzies, 30, who tried futilely to work the sub free with its six little electric propulsion motors...
Harvard's greatest weakness throughout the afternoon was that it could just not catch 22, UMass attackman Pete Conolly, who got loose for three goals and six assists. Conolly, a short, sunken-chested milque-toast with an equally unimpressive stick, somehow knew exactly where to be, where to shoot, and whom to feed...
...building is planned to fit into its surroundings," Williams said. "Land-scaping, including a sunken garden, a terrace and more trees, will improve the quadrangle where the building will be located...