Word: sinkful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Navy has had to sink the ships which survived Bikini. Last week the submarine Skate and the transport Crittenden were destroyed during landing maneuvers off Southern California. Next month the heavy cruiser Pensacola and the destroyer Hughes will be sent to the bottom. Two years and three months after Bikini, all four were still radioactive...
...South Bend watching Army play Notre Dame, he wrote a column about the excellence of the Cadets, even though they were mashed up, and paused in the middle to say "I have just received the awful intelligence that Harvard will play Army next year." Let us not sink, along with Egan, into the depths of despair. Let us be unemotional, and remember that "to hope till Hope creates from its own wreck the thing it contemplates . . . this is alone Life, Joy, Empire, Victory!" That's what Shelley said; translated it means that when you have an offensive team that...
...Valpey claims he did nothing to bring his boys "up" for Columbia. They came up by themselves, and they will do the same thing for Yale and Army. In the meantime, they will be psychologically "down" for games like Dartmouth. Princeton, Brown, Holy Cross. And Cornell, How low they sink in comparison to Cornell's rise (it is fresh from a win over tough Navy) will decide the game. For the Crimson is able to win: if it doesn't, morale will be the cause...
...which he often found himself at odds with Washington, had embittered him. He has made some of the dreariest speeches in the 700-year history of the House of Commons. Last week, he was the old Ernie Bevin again, the great commoner who-when Russia first threatened to sink U.N. 2½ years ago-had lifted U.N. above its fears. He was the same Bevin who, as labor leader and as war leader, had learned how to get up and yell for freedom. His speech embodied the West's great and simple moral cause...
After analyzing election returns of the last 100 years, Bean concludes that 1946 was the statistical rock-bottom vote for the Democratic Party, below which the Democrats will not sink. In fact he adds that 1948 is actually the beginning of a new ebb tide for the G.O.P. and the start of another Democratic era. For support he points to the Congressional by-elections, the mayoralty races, and polls of 1947, all of which swung toward the Democrats and seemed to contradict the long-standing prediction of A. M. Schlesinger, Sr. that the U.S. is in for a Conservative...