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...installations and the strength of the Australian holding force in Milne Bay had been a closely guarded military secret. It was a secret no longer. From their ambush, Australian combat forces under veteran Major General Cyril Clowes fell on the invaders, drove them from the narrow shore into the waist-deep mud of the mangrove swamps. Allied planes blasted them. The Japanese sent a rescue fleet of eight destroyers and a cruiser to evacuate the remnants of their forces. Lost were all their tanks and heavy equipment...
...that comes from around the steaming Ganges Delta in Bengal Province. In no other part of the world where acceptable jute can be grown has labor been persuaded to process it, for jute must soak in stagnant water, must be hand-worked by natives who wade waist-deep in the stinking mess...
...tanker from World War I days, he rode his tank across fields and through woods, stood waist-deep in a river to guide others across, sat with his men in the grass at halts, cursed roundly at delay and slow-footed action...
...expedition has to drag its heavy boats over forested hills to avoid the French on Lake Champlain; sloshes waist-deep in mosquito-infested swamps; forms a human chain to cross the rushing St. Francis River (actors were protected against chills by some 200 suits of watertight rubber underwear). Amidst repeated admonitions to caution, the Rangers make enough noise (once they explode a powder keg) to rouse half the Amerinds in North America. But the Abenakis pay them no mind. These obliging Indians have been on a bender the night before the raid, are sleeping it off when Rogers' Rangers...
...Catherine the Great's palace was the "mechanical" wonder of the age: laden banquet tables which, on command, rose or sank through the floor. They were manipulated by "a forest of human hands" whose owners stood waist-deep in the habitually flooded basement. Frequently the ropes broke, the tables dropped, the operators were crushed to death...