Word: sunkenness
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...what of Flip? Bermuda was none of those things for Flip, who met Mary on his 23rd birthday. He called her pirate's treasure (a sunken chest). but Flip thought a lot of her. Drinks at the Terrace, dancing at Elbow, and then romantic walks at Horseshoe Bay. This girl Mary could even keep up with Flip and his quick bike. The week moved toward a climax, and Flip talked to her in terms of future get-togethers. Then came the big last night, and Mary flashed her engagement ring at Flip. Think what Bobby Vinton could do with material...
Ships have fascinated Ludwig all his life. The son of a moderately successful real estate operator, he scraped together $25 to buy a sunken, 26-ft. boat lying in the lake off his home town of South Haven, Mich. At the time, he was nine years old. After raising the boat and working all winter on repairs, Ludwig chartered it for more than twice his investment. By the time he was 26, Ludwig had acquired an antique oil tanker, one of the first half-dozen ever built. The tanker business has brought him wealth, but it also nearly killed...
Through the backlogs of shopping centers and alongside broken-bottle cluttered parks and sandlot ballfields, the train zipped along, then eased to a slow rumble as it moved into the sunken city trainyards under billboards of Ace Carpet Company and WLS personalities, Walenski Furniture and Jimmy's Discount House...
...Barbara she reached out too, saying, "I want." I protested. My parents reasoned. "But darling, she's only a baby. But darling, you're a big girl. But darling, you don't care about a doll." I reconsidered. "Now, darling, which one do you want?" I chose-Cookie, with sunken eyes and stringy hair. Years later, asked by my sister why I had ever chosen that awful doll, I delivered a thoroughly convincing defense of her superiority...
Inside the sunken, multistory bunkers, equipped with electric lights, TV, foam-rubber mattresses and even disposable plastic mess gear, life becomes a routine of sitting out one artillery barrage after another. Dust blows off the dunes in gagging flurries and the heat is stifling, but the bunkers are relatively safe. The tanklike forts are topped with such a sturdy mixture of sand, concrete, timber and steel rails ripped up from the trans-Sinai line that even accurate salvos send little more than tremors below. The Suez defenders, who call themselves "moles," pass the hours in the cramped forts cleaning their...