Word: sank
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...protest. Meanwhile, bad news keeps rolling in for Haitians. In Miami a Haitian man surrendered to authorities after hijacking a DC-3. And off the coast of the luckless island, a ferryboat that may have been carrying as many as 1,000 people (nonrefugees traveling around the island) sank during a rainstorm. Only about 300 people are known to have survived, though more might have escaped...
Second: Having seized a 71-70 lead with almost no time left, Harvard watched as Darrin Bradley, Brown's junior center, stepped to the free throw line and coolly sank two shots...
Mere press releases and posters won't help when the campus is scoffing at council members' behavior. Certainly, that behavior has not all been Beys' fault. Last fall, an already beleaguered council sank into absurdity when Maya G. Prabhu '94--who narrowly defeated Beys in the fall vice-chair election--resigned over ballot fraud...
...budget office) derided the plan as unsound, and Ross Perot ridiculed Clinton for a "a bunch of junk numbers that don't compute." Perot's criticism dovetailed perfectly with Republican claims that Clinton was a tax-and-spend liberal, and the Democrat's standing in the polls sank precipitously...
...anything been done about the threat of nuclear contamination in the oceans. Over the years four Soviet submarines, their reactors full of nuclear fuel, sank accidentally. The most dangerous, the world was reminded last week, may be the Komsomolets, which caught fire in April 1989 and went down in more than 4,500 ft. of water 310 miles off the coast of Norway. The wreck is already leaking cesium-137, a carcinogenic isotope. So far the leakage is considered too small to affect marine life or human health...