Word: sunkenness
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...Beirut, diplomats labored and negotiated. General Georges Catroux, rushed in as trouble shooter for General Charles de Gaulle and the French Committee, worked late, his sunken cheeks grey with fatigue, his deep-sunk eyes blazing with anger at "the plot." The existence of "the plot"-to build up British influence in the Levant at French expense-was taken for granted even by sobersided Frenchmen, although any such sinister motives were hotly denied by British Minister Sir Edward Spears and U.S. Diplomatic Agent George Wadsworth...
...harbor, Italy's biggest port after Genoa, was cluttered with sunken ships. The Germans had sown the dockside with mines and booby traps, had destroyed warehouses and dock installations. The Germans had stripped the steel works, machine shops, locomotive factories, glass, wool, linen, silk, even macaroni factories of their machinery and left the buildings charred and gutted...
...Hardest hit are the railroad and dock areas. In the harbor a sunken liner's funnels still stick out of the water. The remains of one or two ferries clutter the slipways. Concrete piers have been cut in two. Railway cars are smashed. The scene recalls the earthquake of 1908, when 91% of Messina's buildings were destroyed and 78,000 of its residents perished...
...Roots. Professorial chambers are anywhere from twice to four times the size of those enjoyed at most rich universities. Paleographer Elias Avery Lowe got extra windows so that he might decipher ancient texts without eyestrain. Archeologist Ernst Herzfeld got a sunken floor to admit outsize cases for Persian treasures. Salaries are above general scholarly levels. No professor has administrative chores. Professors may have vacations of about three months twice a year-but rarely take them...
...with solicitude sailors carried up the gangway ancient models of sailing ships, knickknacks, family portraits framed in lifebelts, old seascapes." When the destroyer left, before dawn, Voyetekhov went underground to Naval headquarters, nerve center of the defense. Among the activities directed there was a system of salvage from sunken supply ships in the harbor. Divers were sent out every night to bring up baskets full of shells, food and medical supplies. Voyetekhov's narrative here includes one of several bits of transparently invented dialogue...