Word: sunkenness
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...world-famed, Nobel Prizewinning German poet-dramatist; in Agnetendorf, in now-Polish Silesia. A lone light in Germany's end-of-the-century literary darkness, he passed from his era's realism and social protest (The Weavers) to a new era's symbolistic fantasy (The Sunken Bell); in his old age was seized upon as a symbol of German culture by both the Nazis and their Soviet conquerors...
...towers on the little islands around Bikini to support 'batteries of cameras, radio-controlled and sheathed in lead against radiation. A legion of instruments will be exposed on the sand, built into concrete bunkers, or sunk in the lagoon. They will measure radiation, heat, shock and blast. Twenty sunken instruments will measure the waves, which might rise to a height of several hundred feet...
...forced into the river itself by the heat and smoke. All along we meet frightfully burned people. By the wayside are many dead and dying. On the Misasi Bridge we are met by a procession of soldiers who have suffered burns. Abandoned on the bridge, there stand with sunken heads a number of horses with large burns on their flanks...
...tests will be necessary: 1) upon a fleet at anchor in shallow water, where divers could go down later to examine the hulls of sunken ships; 2) upon a fleet in deep water. Both are extremely difficult to arrange. In neither case can the ships be manned. The shallow water test must be made where no coastal lands will be affected; it must be far from important fishing grounds and from ocean currents which might carry radioactive water to populated shores...
...Sunken hips, fuzzy lips...