Word: knee-deep
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...close (the marines always covered her with their flak jackets on such occasions). After the war, Major General Randolph Pate, commanding general of the 1st, cited Reckless for bravery and formally promoted her to the rank of sergeant.* Today the seven-year-old mare is living in honored retirement, knee-deep in alfalfa, near Camp Pendleton, Calif...
...south to him from the Communist North, and a Confucian ballet performed by 32 silk-clad girls. Diem also impressed the villagers by his coolness when his ceremonial barge, overloaded with admirers who clambered aboard, capsized and sank in the river near Hué. "Ladies first," Diem insisted from knee-deep in the river, when rescuers put out from shore...
...black plume of smoke rises, and three French planes make successive dives at a field while a fourth circles overhead, spotting. Have they sighted the Viet Minh who made the ambush on this road, or another band? Just a few hundred yards from the flaming truck, coolies are working knee-deep in the mud as if nothing has happened, never looking up from under their straw hats. Are some or all or none of them Viet Minh? Have they guilty knowledge? Who knows...
...Heaven, praising Jesus Christ and His glorious Mother." Balboa knelt, commanding his men to do likewise, "and gave thanks to God for the grace He had shown him in allowing him to discover that sea." Later, Balboa and his men scrambled down to the sea's edge, stood knee-deep in the salt water, and took "possession corporal and present of these austral seas and lands and coasts and islands with everything annexed to them or which might pertain to them ... in times past, present or to come...
...pieces, proud old Abdal lah spent the final months of his life roaming wild on a Brooklyn beach. Too weak to forage for food, he took refuge from oncoming winter in a deserted shanty, starved to death standing up, leaning against the shanty's wall, legs mired in knee-deep...