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...bought a derrick, got an ancient, 3,000-ft. East Texas drilling rig and a leaking secondhand boiler and boldly set out to sink a 6,000-ft. hole in Hardin County. He drafted his father as a tool pusher, his younger brother William as a laborer. It was agonizing toil. Sand ruined the rubber rings in his pumps every half hour; each time, he dismantled the mechanism and installed new ones. The "coffee pot" rig broke down endlessly. He says: "We might as well have been drilling with a high-heeled boot." It took six months to sink...
...plot no bigger than a thumb. The plot: Range's psychopathic wife fakes illness to keep her weak-willed husband away from Djuna's barge; eventually she brings both of them under her spell and has them waiting on her hand & foot. Despairing Djuna decides to sink herself, lover, barge and all. At the last minute she changes her mind and dives into a dot-studded, six-page stream of consciousness...
...Just as I was going up to the bridge, I heard the captain shout a quick order to the engine room. Almost at once we were struck. With the others, I stood still. In a matter of seconds, the ship seemed to sink beneath us and go straight down." Henley, Bowers and the three others were floundering...
...those square things with a padded top and sides that go right down to the ground. We could carry it out every day and vault over it. One of us would be inside digging while the others vaulted. We'd have a good strong trap [door] and sink it at least a foot below the surface [of the ground]. It's foolproof...
...backing for a gold-mining project in Macedonia, an ECA official snapped: "The best place to dig for gold in Greece is in people's mattresses." The imprint of war still remains heavy on the land-and even on the language. A Greek washerwoman, bent over her heaped sink, will say: "Polemo tin bougada" (I am making war on the laundry). A truck driver sprawling underneath his truck will say: "Polemo tin mechani" (I am at war with the engine). After nine years of invasion, occupation and civil war, polemen (to make war) in colloquial Greek has replaced ergazer...