Word: sinkful
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...photojournalists have the legitimacy of being news, fresh information. They slice along the hard edge of the present. Photojournalism is not self-conscious, since it first enters the room (the brain) as a battle report from the far-flung Now. It is only later that the artifacts of photojournalism sink into the textures of the civilization and tincture its memory: Jack Ruby shooting Lee Harvey Oswald, an image so raw and shocking, subsides at last into the ecology of memory where we also find thousands of other oddments from the time -- John John saluting at the funeral, Jack and Jackie...
...wife and two children live in a spare, two-room apartment of about 30 sq. yds. provided by his school. The bathroom is down the hall. In the smaller room the kids share a bed under a Michael Jackson poster. On the wall above the sink and the small stove are a calendar and a photo of the New York City skyline. "It's not much," says Bi, but the subsidized rent is only $4 a month...
Depending on the small college market could ultimately sink Microfridge, Inc., said Chuck Ryan, an industry analyst at Merrill Lynch. Ryan also said the retail price was high enough to be a probable stumbling block...
...Crimson blew 16th-ranked Army out of the water, 8-6, in the first round Saturday but could not manage to sink top-seeded Navy later in the day. The 11th-ranked Midshipmen eked out a 10-8 victory to advance to the championship game of the tournament. In the title game, Navy defeated Brown...
...cold rain began falling. "The infantryman slithers in the mud, while many teams of horses are needed to drag each gun forward," one German general recounted. "All wheeled vehicles sink up to their axles in slime." The first snow fell on Oct. 6. A month later, the temperatures fell below zero. Tank engines began to freeze. The troops, who had been issued no winter clothing, suffered frostbite...