Word: sank
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Thomas Mann story, a sort of literary foothill to his later Magic Mountain. The ballet began in a stark hospital room done in astringent blues and whites. The tuberculous heroine (Ballerina Nora Kaye) beat feebly on the single closed door, panted, felt her heart, slithered onto a chair and sank to the floor in a crawling frenzy. She was joined there by the hero (Erik Bruhn). Together they clutched, held, tangled and disentangled in a series of movements that ranged from the supine to the ridiculous...
...midweek the Reds made their first serious effort to counter the new system, sent four fast torpedo boats out to intercept a pair of Nationalist LSTs. Before the Communist craft could reach their prey, Nationalist Sabre jets flashed down with cannon roaring and, by Taipei's count, sank three of the four. Angrily, the Communists hurled two waves of 16 MIGs apiece out to punish the Sabres. In the swirling dogfights that followed, four Nationalist pilots knocked down at least five MIGs, sent the rest hightailing home. The kills brought the Nationalist total to 17 MIGs in three weeks...
...exercises. In the dark first moments of July 30, she was halfway to Leyte. With no warning cry from any lookout, there were two tremendous explosions on the starboard side. Precisely how many men the blasts killed will never be known. In about twelve minutes-at 0014-the Indianapolis sank, throwing some 850 officers and men into the water. They had life jackets and a few rafts, but no boats...
...high command figured it must have been Captain Charles B. McVay 3rd, respected, competent commanding officer of Indianapolis, and took two unprecedented steps: it court-martialed an officer for losing his ship to the enemy and called the enemy (in the person of the sub commander who sank Indy) to testify against him. McVay was convicted but with a recommendation of clemency. The conviction was soon set aside...
...flamboyant finale just before the development of heavy potash glass in Germany and lead glass in England broke Venice's near monopoly. Glass blowers made wine goblets in the forms of whole ships, gondolas, pyramids, belfries, tubs, whales and lions. With such excesses, Venice's sun sank-but not before the glass blowers of Murano had explored the possibilities of their material to its limits...