Word: wallowingly
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...picture opens in a magnificent wallow of amphtracks as they leave their LSTs and head for shore under fire. One is hit and helpless. A plane, too, goes down. These are the finest shots of this stage of battle which have yet been released. Those which follow, ashore, are hardly less fine, made very close to the ground as marines, heroic in size and movement on the screen, rush across the open beach against everything the Japanese can throw at them. A hit man stops short, falls wounded before the lens. The cutting-away from such bits is swift, perhaps...
...Japanese soldier took my canteen, gave the water to a horse, and threw the canteen away. Men recently killed were lying along the roadside; many had been run over and flattened by Japanese trucks. . . . Finally a Japanese officer permitted us to drink water from a dirty carabao wallow...
...incidental target. The bombers which had somehow slipped through the screen of overwhelming Allied air superiority headed for the harbor, studded with ships of a newly arrived convoy. Two ammunition vessels blew up, setting their neighbors ablaze. From other bombed ships thick, pitch-black smoke began to wallow towards the blue sky. Here and there ack-ack guns barked angrily-too late...
Sturdy, well armed, and round-bottomed to wallow over the waves rather than cut through them, the Angry is a queer duck to be flying a U.S. ensign. Her 206-ft. length is shorter than a destroyer's, longer than most cutters'. In the Royal Navy, for which she was built in 1940, she was classed as a corvette. When Britain gave the ship and five others like her to the U.S. last March, the U.S. Navy quickly changed her name and classed her with gunboats, since the U.S. has no corvette class...
...defense of Matrûh, the British drew up their line from that port south to the edge of the Qattara Depression-a great under-sea-level wallow bordered by steep limestone scarps and bedded with salt marshes. Even Rommel, they thought, would not try to outflank them by venturing into that...