Word: sunkenness
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...main dance floor, in the sunken garden, three red-and-gold-liveried musicians played songs under the stars for sentimentalists who just wanted to sit and listen. Inside the house, Pianist George Feyer was arpeggioing his way through music to drink by when Janet arrived to exchange her wilting bouquet for one of the fresh ones on the mantlepiece. Suddenly Feyer was accompanying Janet in a surprisingly expert rendition of I Could Have Danced All Night, followed by a rich barroom version of After the Ball Was Over from Randolph Churchill...
...prerequisite for writing about adolescence-an eye for the entirely incongruous and often grimy details. On a half-submerged minesweeper in Danzig harbor, Mahlke and his classmates cheerfully chew dried seagull droppings and spit them contentedly into the sea. The next moment, before diving to explore the sunken hulk, Mahlke is reverently humming prayers of praise to the Virgin Mary...
Most self-made men begin their impatient climb to wealth as teenagers; Daniel Keith Ludwig could not wait that long. As a nine-year-old in South Haven, Mich., he bought a sunken 26-ft. boat for $75, raised and repaired it, then chartered it for twice the price. He has not stopped since. Now a youthful-looking 66, D. K. Ludwig is the world's biggest individual ship operator, commanding a tanker fleet that can carry 2,500,000 tons. As if that were not enough the lean, frugal and publicity-shy Ludwig mines salt in Mexico, refines...
Rachman looked the part of an Ian Fleming villain. Short and fat, with grotesquely tiny hands and feet, he had no neck, a bald head shaped like a soccer ball, and sunken blue eyes always hidden behind dark glasses. He dressed flashily, wore elevator shoes of crocodile leather. It amused him to watch naked lady wrestlers, and he had a fetish about hygiene, insisting that all his silverware be sterilized and un touched by human hands. More than most men, Rachman loved money and women...
...Trieste has feeble propulsion. She can creep only four or five miles at about 1.4 m.p.h.; during the 45 minutes that it will take Trieste Skipper Lieut. Commander Donald L. Keach to guide his strange craft to the bottom, unexpected currents may carry her out of sight of the sunken submarine...