Word: sinkful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Buckley, who was playing forward, then took advantage of a fast break to sink a well-timed basket to bring his team within four points of the Big Red, but this was the end of the threat...
...something like 14 minutes Captain Harold Hansen and his men (save two, who slipped from sight) were struggling with lifeboats and life rafts in the chilling, oil-drenched water. A third, final torpedo struck again from port side. The 9,577-ton tanker canted drunkenly but did not entirely sink. The sub, surfaced after the third shot, made no attempt to pick up survivors. A second officer insisted that his raft was fired on "five or six times" by the sub's deck gun. A fishing boat, U.S. destroyer and Coast Guard cutter picked up the 38 chilled survivors...
...Knock into print. In Manhattan it published another song composed that Sunday afternoon: You're a Sap, Mr. Jap, by James Cavanaugh, John Redmond and Nat Simon. Excerpt: Uncle Sam is gonna spanky. Wait and see, before we're done The A. B. C. and D. will sink your rising...
...crew of the Philippine Clipper was at Wake when the first attack came-18 Jap planes that bombed and strafed the construction camp, the docks and fuel installations. The Clipper was ordered back to Honolulu. The Marines stayed on. Somehow they managed to sink a Jap cruiser and a destroyer. They knocked down two enemy planes...
...were not only exhausted; they were wiser men. They had seen 36 Japanese high-level bombers and 50 Japanese torpedo-bombers accomplish in a matter of minutes as much as Adolf Hitler's submarines and Stukas had been able to accomplish in two years of war-i.e., sink two capital ships...