Word: sinkful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Sink or Swim. In the viscous gumbo, fighting was reduced to patrol actions. Off Leyte's western shore, Japanese reinforcement convoys appeared and were attacked by fighter bombers from Sverdrup's new strips. Some were burned and some were sunk. Thousands of Japanese troops on their way to reinforce the stubborn, holdout garrison at Ormoc died. How many thousands, no man knew, although the communiqués offered guesstimates in bold round numbers...
...drop ball after ball dead on the pin. (He could equip a caddy with a baseball glove and pitch iron shots to him on the first bounce.) His one weakness is with the putter. He is inclined to stroke a short putt too hard, and is more likely to sink a 20-footer than a three-footer. He knows and bemoans this frailty, but a bad session on the greens never fails to ruffle his manufactured composure...
There was momentary silence; then cheers from the crowd, who took this Hershey bumble as representing the spirit of the New Deal's demobilization policy. Dewey let the quote sink in, then repeated it for good measure...
...immediately conscious of tense excitement there. Our Air Group had been launched shortly before dawn to fly over 14 Jap airfields, hit the great oil refinery and naval manufacturing works of Java, and, incidentally, to shoot down any planes that might be in the air and to sink any ships that might be in the harbor (ten were destroyed that...
...Japanese commentators on the News From Japan program "sink our ships one day and have them turn up a week later to be bombed from the air by daring Japanese pilots." The broadcasters do not give their names, but some of them sound amazingly American, with hardly a trace of the common Oriental difficulty over...