Word: knee-deep
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...farms around Benares, India's holy city, are nourished by the sacred Ganges. The soil is black and crumbly, as rich-looking as chocolate. Cane grows as high as a man's head. Water is knee-deep in the lush paddies. It is a happy land, where plump little children stand beside the road, laugh and wave to passing automobiles, where slender farm girls, with water jars balanced gracefully on their heads, smile shyly before covering their faces with colorful head cloths. Old men sit in the doorways of mud huts, contentedly puffing on long-stemmed hookahs...
...armed with another souvenir (a Malayan parang, a vicious native knife which a British sergeant had given him), the traveler from Illinois logged a misadventure. Flying over the jungle near Kuala Lumpur, his helicopter caught fire and made a forced landing in a paddyfield. Stepping out unharmed into knee-deep mud, Stevenson cracked: "Where is my parang? I want to kill a bandit." At week's end, Stevenson was ready to take off for Bangkok, with stops at Rangoon, New Delhi and Karachi before heading on to the Middle East...
...Marine Corps showed off its new Mighty Mite a pint-size cousin of the wartime jeep (40 inches shorter and 1,300 lbs. lighter) The spunky little auto has no muffler (the tubular frame acts as one) and no axles (each wheel is independently sprung), and can plow through knee-deep mud, ford streams, hit 45 m.p.h. on a level highway, climb an 87% grade and be airlifted by helicopter. The Marines have ordered ten Mites powered by 65-h.p. Lycoming air-cooled engines, from Mid-America Research Corp. of Wheatland...
...raised on a farm." She said she will not tell little Winnie that he is a millionaire: "He grabs at everything in sight at the toy store, [but] I tell him: 'We can't afford it, dear.'" Bobo described herself as broke, an installment-plan buyer, knee-deep in cooking and other menial household chores. When told that her husband's lawyers had said that Winthrop had given her a tax-free $128,000 since their separation, Bobo was "absolutely flabbergasted." Said she: "Untrue . . . absolutely disgusting." But all Bobo really wants, she indicated, is a reconciliation...
...Ulen is knee-deep in outstanding sprinters, with Dave Hedberg, Ron Huebsch, Don McNamara, Captain Bob Stroud, and Phil Pratt ready to compete in the 50, 100, or the 400-yard relay. Hedberg and sophomore Mary Sandler are also efficient...