Word: sank
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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With Quaker wing Dean Brown closing in on a rolling ball about ten yards away from the goal, Bagnoli charged, and seemingly grabbed the ball off Brown's foot. When Bagnoli sank to the ground after punting out of danger, Crimson hopes plummeted. It turned out that he was merely stunned--from taking the brunt of Brown's kick on his head...
Mitscher launched his first strike at 0540, Oct. 25; during the day Task Force 38 planes made 527 sorties, sank three carriers and a destroyer and crippled a fourth carrier. U.S. surface ships and submarines sank the crippled carrier, a light cruiser and a destroyer. But Bull Halsey was not around for the slaughter; for hours he had been getting urgent queries as to his whereabouts, desperate requests for help off Samar. At 1055 Halsey gave in to the pressure, ordered a large part of his force to turn back south -and went with them. By the time...
...days it was touch and go. First Denett seemed the weaker, then Jeanett sank alarmingly, with mucus threatening to choke her. Surgeons cut a hole in her neck and passed a silver tube into her windpipe to provide extra oxygen and speed drainage. Next day Jeanett went into unexplained spasms. Adrenaline-like drugs, and her own vitality, pulled her through that crisis. Last week, with infinite relief, the University of Oregon doctors pronounced the operation a success. Their greatest immediate danger past, both babies were doing well...
...Harvard-Dartmouth game was played in Hanover for the first time in 62 years, with the Crimson winning, 21 to 7. Five consecutive Green victories ensued, as Harvard football sank to its lowest ebb. Then the Crimson countered with two triumphs in a row, by scores of 26 to 19 and 20 to 14, before the Indians reversed the trend by scoring...
Then, with time running out in the second overtime, a cross from the Crimson's left wing Tadgh Sweeney pulled goalie Robin Parkman far out of position. Ekpebu, at center forward, got off a low, fast shot toward the empty nets, but Amherst fullback Drew Mallory sank to his knees in front of the goal and blocked the ball with his chest. By the time varsity inside Bruce Johnstone could follow up Ekpebu's shot, Parkman was in position to block the attempt...