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Word: sinkful (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...well-trained Army, certainly did not include sending arms to Soviet Russia, California's irreconcilable Isolationist, old (74) Senator Hiram Johnson, shouted in a throbbing voice: "I will not subscribe to the doctrine that you must be a Stalinite to be an American. . . . Good God! Did we ever sink so low before as to choose one cutthroat out of two? This man was Hitler's ally. . . . Now we furnish him with weapons which may be turned upon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: Out on the Limb | 8/18/1941 | See Source »

...failed to add, political porking) sometimes resulted in bad camp sites. Example: "In locating Camp Davis [N.C.] the site selected was swampy area and in effect a peat bog. The spongy nature of the terrain necessitated the building of concrete parking strips for the mechanized equipment which would rapidly sink if left standing . . . on the ground itself...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Defense: Senator Truman Reports | 8/18/1941 | See Source »

...mail runs to about 500 letters a week. The letter he likes best came from a man who wrote: "My wife was a semi-invalid. She enjoyed your broadcasts. Yesterday she began to sink, but she heard the last out. She died happy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Brooklyn Esthete | 8/11/1941 | See Source »

Since La Línea had no destroyers to sink or petrol dumps to burn, for once the world had a gauge of the accuracy of Italian Air Force communiqu...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World War: MEDITERRANEAN THEATER: Wrong Raid | 7/21/1941 | See Source »

Aland Islands: o'land Hanko: hang'koe Helsinki: hell'sink...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World War: EASTERN THEATER: Wootsk & Pootsk | 7/7/1941 | See Source »

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