Word: beneath
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...found myself on my feet for the first time in eight weeks, and they gave beneath me and I fell flat on my face, half in and half out of the saloon. My life belt was under my chair and I put it on from ground level...
...remember being pinned between the gunwale of the lifeboat and a rope which was held taut across my chest. The davits were within a few feet. Beneath me was a tangled mass of ropes, oars, iron and foaming water. I saw the red-faced man disappear into this turmoil, and then I was in it myself. There was a roar of rushing water, which almost but not quite obliterated the noise of screaming...
...were shipping a certain amount of water, and we had to bale continuously. The Lascars were worse than useless: they were too paralysed even to bale. I had quite a struggle to keep hold of a blanket I had been given, so anxious were they to hide their heads beneath it. It was pretty cold by this time, and my wretched pyjamas were not much protection against the wind...
...first indication that something might be done about U. S. grievances before the China war ends. Most significant, it was the first concrete example in many months of ascendancy of Cabinet over General Staff. On the surface it looked like a sincere gesture of appeasement. But beneath the surface it looked like bait...