Word: sinkful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...frothing sea 235 miles south of Tokyo Bay, agitated by hot lava and fuming with sulfurous steam, spewed out a new 10-acre volcanic island which most likely will soon sink slowly back into the sea. One Japanese scientist suggested a name: "MacArthur Island." "It is most spectacular, it is creating great excitement, but in another year or two it will be gone...
...Mercury cause is right down Airforceman McCrary's alley: "Sink the Navy." An air-power zealot, he won a public-relations victory for the A.A.F. with his "flying circus" that sped correspondents into Shanghai before the surrender, into Hiroshima and Nagasaki in the wake of the atomic bombs...
...tiny Harlem apartment where Carol lives with her husband and their 21-month-old son, Carol memorizes her songs by propping scores over the sink or the ironing board. Says she: "People tell me, 'Oh well, you're Negro so you're musical.' But I have to work just as hard as any white singer...
...prosperous Indiana farmer (Walter Huston) who falls in love with his hired girl (Mary James). Knowing that he is old enough to be her father, he is not bold enough to ask for her hand. While his neighbors' tongues wag and his family's hearts sink, he squires the unsuspecting young lady to carnivals and Chinese restaurants, strains his eyes going without glasses, sprains his tack showing off as a wrestler. After much stewing, he sends the girl away. After much scene-stretching, she comes back...
...strikes in four and a half years, the efficiency of Ford workers dropped some 34%, far more, according to trade gossip, than any other auto com pany. As long as Uncle Sam paid the bills, the company could swim. In peace this labor sabotage was enough to sink...