Word: hulked
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...burning hulk sank in 400 fathoms (2,400 ft.) of the Bahamas' Northwest Providence Channel. At last count, 458 persons had lived through the disaster; 91 had died. The cause of the blaze was a mystery. All that remained of the Yarmouth Castle was four empty lifeboats, scattered debris and an oil slick...
...Powell left Manhattan for Paris in 1958, his friends prayed that the change of locale might somehow exorcise the demons that had plagued him for much of his life. Instead, Powell sank even deeper into his private inferno. After five years abroad he was a shattered, empty-eyed hulk, a stranger to himself and his music. When friends finally placed him in a hospital outside Paris a year ago, he was suffering from tuberculosis, alcoholism, malnutrition and other legacies of hard living. Doctors said that he would not recover for at least three years. But Powell progressed rapidly, was soon...
...unflappable, unkempt hulk of a man, who looms 6 ft. 3 in. and is pushing 250 Ibs., Reedy has had the L.B.J. brand on him since the day in 1951 when he quit the United Press after nine years as congressional reporter. He was going to work for the junior Senator from Texas, Reedy told friends, "because Lyndon Johnson is going to be President some day and I'm hitching my wagon to that star...
...chest proves to be empty. After a bitter, final attempt at finding the little girl buried in Mumbo's hulk, Dicey falls ill. When the Maltese discovers her, she is mysteriously bruised and barely conscious, muttering: "It's all gone, was it ever there? No, never there...
...that soon there was not enough of either to go around. The British aircraft carrier Centaur picked up 55 bodies, then dispatched a helicopter to the Lakonia to see if anyone was still on board; from the vessel, a British officer reported that the liner was a burnt-out hulk. As the rescue ships sped from the scene toward the port of Funchal in Madeira, the ruined liner was taken into tow by the Norwegian salvage tug Herkules...