Word: deeps
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...boat station was Starboard 5. ... Near this boat station there was a companionway which leads over No. 3 hatch, and it was here that the second torpedo had struck us. The boards covering this hatch had been blown off by the force of the explosion, and there was a deep yawning hole...
...deep: it never became dark, but was always frothy. Hard things swept by me. I groped upwards with my hands, and kicked with my feet. I remember thinking rather numbly: "I suppose they will see it in The Times." And then to my intense surprise I was on the surface, spluttering but otherwise feeling remarkably well...
Place and circumstance might have been used as a symbol by a more rhetorical man than former football guard Mayor Lamberton. For while the city jingled, beneath the mayor's feet was Philadelphia's deep, dark financial hole...
When Britons, who like to spend especially cheerless afternoons by the fire reading Tchekov, Turgenev, or Dostoevsky, want to describe a person whose deep gloom is relieved only by occasional starts of dark suspicion, they say: "Frightfully Russian." Frightfully Russian were Russians last week. Citizens heard almost no official announcements about the campaign in Finland-except that Russia's defensive warfare against aggressive Finland had reached points 90 miles inside Finland's borders. But in the streets unhappy Russians heard ugly rumors...
...guided by the island's blinker and its own searchlight, eased in to an anchorage. The natives swarmed aboard. On deck they had a big surprise-the smiling face of Rear Admiral Richard E. Byrd, genuinely happy to be of assistance, only incidentally pleased to find himself hip-deep in news again...