Word: sinkful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Meanwhile at the New England Prep School meet at Andover, Rollo Sink, former national collegiate mile title-holder (4.17) from Southern Cal was beating workhorse Jim Rafferty by 10 yards in 4.25. Sink, who is currently attending the Navy Supply School here, has been working out under Jaakko for several weeks, and it was Jaakko who gave him instructions on how to run his race against Rafferty...
...also disclosed a six-weeks-old cam paign to strangle Jap shipping by dense aerial mining of her coastal and inland waters. Nineteen missions had been flown ; the Navy had furnished the mines and mine experts. Parachuted into the water at night, the mines are the "magnetic" type; they sink to the bottom and explode when a ship passes close by. LeMay plans to keep the waters "polluted...
...fact and its meaning were slow to sink in. It was as though Stettinius and Eden did not want to look at the skeleton which had invaded the feast. All next day they and Molotov labored away, in a kind of desperate friendliness, at changes in the Dumbarton Oaks draft of their world charter, but the skeleton would not be banished...
...Buchenwald and the other memorials of Nazi infamy reveal the depths to which humanity can sink, and has sunk, in these frightful years...
...sentimental poets, they ended up as much Greek as Indian. In fact, they were American-the first ingots from the great U.S. verbal melting pot that put the second "C" in Connecticut (no one knows who did, or why), made Wyoming out of Mecheweami-ing, Oregon out of Ouiscon-sink (though some Irish patriots still insist that O'Reagan is the obvious source), Laughing Waters out of the onomatopoetic Minne-baba...