Word: sinkful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Belsen From the Belsen camp LIFE Correspondent George Rodger reported: As Winston Churchill addressed the British troops on the banks of the Rhine on March 26, I heard him say: "We are now entering the dire sink of iniquity." These seemed strange words and I did not understand the full meaning of them until today, when at Belsen I witnessed the ultimate in human degradation. There the six-square-mile, barbed-wire enclosure in the heart of a rich agricultural center has been a hell on earth for 60,000 men, women & children of a dozen different nationalities who were...
...plan had been simple. The Japanese admirals proposed to launch the heaviest air blow they could muster against the U.S. ships off Okinawa, perhaps sink a few. The next day the blow would be repeated, in hopes that the jittery fleet would scatter. Into the melee the fastest, heaviest ships Japan possessed would be sent to smash more vessels, then run for home again. It was a good enough plan, but it did not work...
Local track enthusiasts will be glad to hear that the latest midshipman else brought Southern Cal's sensational miles Rol Sink, with it. Rol's 4:16 mile last season was the fastest collegiate mile to the country. Joe Sydnor's definition of "speculation" tops all yet devised. Said ole Black Joe when queried by Pred Livesey, "Buyin' and hopin', I reckon...
Then Spruance added more injury. Ignoring a Japanese air force that had once been able to reach down to Singapore to sink the Prince of Wales and Repulse, he turned his battleships, cruisers and destroyers in on the shore...
...that the War Production Board could do to stop him, now looks on it as the keystone of a Kaiser postwar empire. Said he: "Fontana is not and will not be for sale." Kaiser repeated an old promise. He plans to operate Fontana himself after the war, would sink another $37,000,000 into Fontana to convert it to peacetime steelmaking...