Word: sinkful
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Each new fill of the wine glasses, which are enormous crystal ballons of the sort normally seen only at the swankiest restaurants, brings an invocation of 'Hei, hei,' a friendly salutation which Fielding has borrowed from the hard-drinking Finns. Old anecdotes are dredged up and embellished until they sink again?about the day that Prince Albert and Princess Paola of Belgium visited the villa for skeet shooting and the time that a U.S. Navy admiral suddenly and inexplicably vanished in the middle of a Fielding party. It turned out that he had fallen from the rock garden, broken...
...hated to sink this much money into a garage at this stage of the game," Mrs. Bunting said. "If the merger comes it may be more essential to put money into women's education or somewhere else," she said...
Otherwise, a raffish, indulgent and hyperactive atmosphere prevailed in the Skakel household. There were servants, a swimming pool, riding horses, a 35-ft. yawl and another smaller sailboat (significantly named, by Ethel, Sink or Swim). The house was always crammed with the children's schoolmates and other visitors, and it was not unusual for 25 people to gather at the Skakels' dinner table...
Number 5 man, Paul Oldfield, had to sink an eight-foot putt to win the 18th hole and tie the match. At the last moment, his putt veered to the low side and he lost the match, one down...
Restore to us soups that spoons will not sink...