Word: sunkenness
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...foot soldiers fought across the tiny, cut-up fields, over and down the tough, earth-mound Norman hedges, along the ditches and sunken roads. They fought with hand grenades, shot each other point-blank with rifles, cut each other's throats with bayonets. The Americans, British and Canadians attacked with auto-rifles, Tommy guns. The Nazis fought back with their quick-firing Schmeisser "burp-guns" and sowed mean little "Bouncing Betty" mines that spring up waist high and burst in a shower of steel scrap when a soldier steps...
...faded breeches shrank up his legs. His shirt was ragged. His steely eyes were sunken with fatigue. But his tours among the starved, tattered, forgotten men of Bataan were almost triumphal. They cheered him on the field. Behind his back they reverently called him "Old Skinny...
When he slept Frossia watched him helplessly. "She stood, observing the grimy sunken cheeks, the matted hair, the black-rimmed nails, the bony, bared chest. She got hold of one emaciated hand, brought her ear closer to his face, called his name, but he did not hear her. His blackened mouth continued moving. She bent down and heard a child's broken, muted patter-the young man on Anna's sofa was back in the nursery, afraid of dark corners and curtained windows, and, listening, Frossia was ashamed of her earlier hardness...
...extreme end of the box is a little man with a hook nose, sunken cheeks, deep sunken eyes. He is French and he wears a string of medals. He looks like an Egyptian mummy, except for the queer glitter in his colorless eyes. Another French officer is fat. His eyebrows slant upward. His normal complexion is purple-red-that of a man bursting with rage...
...outrage, thought things had gone too far. Many a furloughing airmaa was returning to his bomber station dead broke. Some servicemen stationed in Miami were hit even harder. Seasonal rents (to May 1)-nominal last year, when most tourists stayed home and the beaches were scummed with oil from sunken tankers- had soared to rentals of $1,500 to $4,000 for tiny apartments...