Word: knee-deep
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...Knee-deep in its $400,000,000 worth of war orders, Chrysler should be in all the way by February. Then M-3 medium tanks should be rolling off 15 a day (against 5 a day now); then the assembling of Martin B-26 medium bomber fuselages should be started; then Bofors 40-mm. anti-aircraft guns should be in production. Already Chrysler's engineering department and laboratories are working 85% of their time on defense, developing a 2,000 h.p. airplane engine, a 500 h.p. liquid-cooled tank engine; a new airplane landing gear strut, etc. Half...
...Germany's Minister to Austria when in 1933 Adolf Hitler climbed into power. Dr. Rieth stayed on in Vienna, was soon knee-deep in Nazi intrigue. After the assassination by Nazi gunmen of Austria's brave little Chancellor Engelbert Dollfuss, Minister Rieth was recalled to Berlin, replaced by his good friend Franz von Papen...
Tooks went into the jungle, armed with colored post cards and bead necklaces. His Indian guides deserted him. He waded knee-deep through streams thick with evil-headed snakes. Malaria got him, pulled him down to 97 lb. He had to quit, go home...
...Yiddish, but to The Bronx: omitted consonants ("lease" for least, "oney" for only, "finey" for finally, "subjeck" for subject); misconceptions ("grain matter" for grey matter) ; transpositions ("dastric" for drastic); mixed metaphors ("Mac Fine, honestly, if there's any figgers arounn, your nose is bound to be knee-deep in them...
...Florida swamp where the big Eastern Airliner lay. She lay sprawled just as she had slewed into the water at 9 o'clock that morning, her big engines jerked from their mounts and dropped near her left wing tip in the mud. Inside her cabin, water was knee-deep, but the lights still burned. Huddled on the seats were 13 passengers, two pilots, a steward...