Word: sinkful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...acre Texas ranch, nobody had ever heard much about his father-but Stymie's greatgrandfather on both sides of the family was Man o' War. When he ran three years ago in a $1,500 claiming race, Stymie sank about as low as bigtime race horses can sink. Last week, by galloping home in the Gallant Fox Handicap at Jamaica, Long Island, Stymie became the second horse in history to earn more than a half-million dollars...
...colleté of the Directoire was followed by the pantalettes of the Victorian era." Had he noticed the latest bathing suits? He never visited the beach. "If they can swim better in them," he hazarded generously, "I suppose they are all right; but if they sink they have themselves to blame...
...Nazi Germany (1923-24, 1926-28), who tried to solve the knotty reparations problem by agreeing to the Dawes Plan, in 1925 the unsuccessful opponent of Hindenburg for the presidency; in Bonn, Germany. The Nazis indicted him for fraud but they never pressed the charges, allowed him to sink into obscurity, where American troops found him in 1945, "bewildered by events," ignored by his people, all but forgotten by the world...
...forceful U.S. diplomacy; yet it was certainly not what Americans had expected or wanted in the postwar world. The agreement to merge the U.S. and British zones of Germany overshadowed the Paris Conference and every other political event since the war's end. As its meaning began to sink in last week the West could take heart because it had called a brilliant Russian bluff; at the same time West and East could take solemn notice that the conflict between them had reached a point where they were openly competing for the favor of the Germans...
...noon Frank Anderson called a halt. His shirt and overalls were mushy with sweat, dust and chaff. At the house plump, jolly Zula Anderson had everything on the table the minute the men finished at the back-porch sink-fried chicken, mashed potatoes, gravy, corn, tomatoes, beets, bread & butter, milk, iced...