Word: sinkful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Following a brief session of cheers from the Navy stands which were answered from across the way by shouts of "Sink the Navy" (sabotage?), Captain McIntosh strode to the plate to bat out the first ball, the latter being thrown in by an equally high representative of the civiliau or home defense unit. In an auspicious manner, the Captain got a solid hit, which made a hit with everyone and should have warned the civilians of the things to come...
...line, there's a rangy whiplash called Buster Ramsey, also Conference champ, a guard who spends more time in opposing backfields than a lot of wingbacks. Ramsey's reputedly almost mystical sense of ball-following, his terrific charge and endurance help him sink most ball-carriers before they come near the line of scrimmage...
...June 4, at the height of the Battle of Midway, Jap bombers found the York. Her planes had already been in furious battle. They had helped to sink three Jap carriers and were preparing to attack a fourth...
Doom Deferred. Huge and helpless in the slow swells, the hulk of the Yorktown did not sink. Buckmaster ordered tugs and salvage vessels. The next day 160 picked men reboarded the carrier. They worked all night pumping out holds and cutting guns from the lower side. The destroyer Hammann was standing by to furnish power for the pumps. The next noon a Jap sub launched two torpedoes into the carrier's weakened plates and sank the destroyer with two more. The concussion broke several men's feet. Lieut. Commander Ernest Davis was blown overboard. Many men had broken...
...fruit juice with the supper ration provides more moisture. The canned-meat ration is so hot from the desert that no fire is necessary. For coffee the tankers sometimes fill a tin can three-quarters with sand, pour in a little gasoline, sink it in the ground to the rim and throw in a match. The gas flames steadily, just long enough to boil the coffee...