Word: sunkenness
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...three-quarters of a mile long by half a mile wide. Built as a defense against German invasion, it is shaped like a double-bit ax, with the cutting edges turned north & south. A barbed-wire-filled moat surrounds its dugouts, gun emplacements, pillboxes, underground tunnels, steel doors, sunken supply roads and guns that move up & down on elevators...
...began in cloudy night with a crescent moon shining fitfully through the overcast upon calm sea. Before the day was 30 minutes old the attack began with a commando landing on the Hyères Islands off Cap Bénat-where the now sunken French fleet used to take its exercise on sunny days. A few hours later more parachutists and gliders landed beyond the Monts des Maures -the Moorish Mountains-that rise between Toulon and Saint-Raphael...
...highway to the house was blocked to traffic, surrounded with barbed wire and guarded by platoons of marines. At the cream stucco mansion, until recently a rest house for Navy aviators, the President had a spacious, 50-foot bedroom ; the bathroom of Presidential aide Sam Rosenman had a sunken tile tub big enough to swim in. The Commander in Chief set up military headquarters on a sundeck overlooking Waikiki's long, rolling surf...
...hood. He found weeds growing in the boulevards, only a tenth of the peacetime population of 125,000 still pottering through the dismal embers left by Allied bombings, German demolitions. The 60 docks, 35 cranes, 21 warehouses were an addled mess. Across the harbor entrance lay three sunken ships. It was plain that Leghorn would be little help to Allied supply problems for weeks to come...
Died. Captain Frederick John Walker, 48, "Nelson of the little ships," crafty, courageous stalker of U-boats; of a heart attack; somewhere in England. A Navy man for 34 years, a four-time winner of the D.S.O., balding, sunken-eyed Walker led the Royal Navy's Second Escort Group, a flotilla of five sloops. His uncanny nose for pigboats netted his flotilla a score...