Word: sinkful
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...short-lived sensation with Pop Rocks, a carbonated candy that crackled and popped when eaten. The candy was so effervescent that the company had to disprove rumors that children who swallowed the granules too fast would get a stomachful of carbonation. But the candy was nothing that youngsters could sink their teeth into, and the fad eventually lost its fizz...
...spirit may fizz away. It may leave little of substance. Or it could congeal into something meaner: smug, complacent, intolerant, jingoistic. Lipset suggests that if serious economic problems hit the country during the next couple of years, Americans will become bitterer than ever, and sink to new depths of national despair. Says he: "Americans will feel had, no matter what party is running the White House at the time." Or the country might become self-satisfied and flaccid. "Optimism does not mean that we should not be cognizant of the real problems that we face," says Orthodox Rabbi Stanley Wagner...
...lemon. The sponsor of that milestone in marketing history is Société Nationale Industrielle Aérospatiale, the French firm whose Exocet air-to-surface missile was responsible for one of the biggest British setbacks of the ten-week war. Argentina used the weapon to sink the destroyer H.M.S. Sheffield, which went down in the South Atlantic on May 4, 1982, with a loss of 20 seamen. Aerospatiale bought a page in The Economist (estimated circ. 252,000), which usually costs about $5,650, to dispute recent reports that the Exocet is not really the devastating ship killer...
...days after Dalyell's disclosures, the weekly New Statesman, citing unidentified British sources, reported that Thatcher disregarded a U.S. peace initiative and decided to sink a major Argentine vessel. She first ordered the sinking of the aircraft carrier Veinticinco de Mayo, but the nuclear submarine assigned to the task lost track of the carrier. Another sub later hit the Belgrano instead. The magazine reported that some of Thatcher's advisers objected that it was against international law to attack a ship without warning. The New Statesman also said that the British sent a Polaris submarine armed with nuclear...
...pumping of so much water out of the subsoil has caused parts of the city to sink, in some places as much as 30 ft., a process worsened by periodic earthquakes. The redoubtable Palace of Fine Arts, which looks rather like some turn-of-the-century world's fair pavilion made of vanilla ice cream, has sunk nearly 10 ft. since it was completed in 1934. The 16th century church of San Francisco, which has sunk 5 ft., can be approached only by going down a flight of stone stairs. At the shrine of Our Lady of Guadalupe, just...