After hearing sirens, they stepped outside and saw the ground sinking from Building 104.
"You pump, pump, pump the ground for water and the pressure makes the ground sink.
Whether the South Sudanese Army withdrew or was forced out of the Heglig area, Abd al-Latif al-Bony, a Sudanese academic, said he believed that military realities on the ground sank in for the South Sudanese Army.
Tenants of the collapsed building said that they had seen the ground sink beneath the rear wall in the last few days, and that the workers had tried to shore up the soil with a retaining wall.
Gulliver offered the King of Brobdingnag the secret of an amazing powder that "would not only destroy whole ranks of an army at once but batter the strongest wall to the ground sink down ships, with a thousand men in each...rip the pavements, tear the houses to pieces,...dashing out the brains of all who came near, destroy the whole metropolis.
Now, the army of laborers -- along with teams of firefighters still diligently looking for human remains -- have moved below ground, sinking floor by floor into the subterranean realm of an office complex that, even in the horrific implosion of the towers, somehow was not smashed flat.
T: Why does that ground sink?
"And there are some instances across the country where ground water withdrawals have caused subsidence" or ground sinking, he noted.
When coffee and hot water combine, undisturbed, most of the grounds sink to the bottom, and a layer of foam and fine particles, known as the crust, forms on top.
The archival photos are outstanding: Vince Lombardi imperiously presiding over his Green Bay Packers during a blocking drill; the Polo Grounds, sunk into upper Manhattan, the scene of a game in 1938; John Madden, '70s sideburns in full splendor, berserk on the sideline, coaching the Oakland Raiders to their first Super Bowl victory.
