Word: sinkingly
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...scavengers--and they are rather more numerous, dear boy, than you might think--would not. They take no chances, you see. They report en masse only when the sure thing is at hand. They do not begin to circle until the footsteps stagger and the body starts to sink upon the sand. They are rarely wrong, dear boy... --Edwin O'Connor, The Last Hurrah...
...millions of tons of CO2 poured into the atmospheric sewer each day, about half apparently remains there. Still unclear is where the rest goes. The ocean provide a major natural "sink," soaking up much of its solution, as do the world's great forested zones, which sop up CO2 for photosynthesis...
...energy fields. Acquisitions of completely unrelated businesses, like Mobil's link with Marcor, probably will be held back both by political opposition and by :he feeling of most oil managements that they should stick to fields in which petroleum expertise is useful. One solution would be to sink money into development of all kinds of natural resources: potash, salt, sulfur, phosphates. Another would 5e simply to distribute more cash to stockholders. In any case, it is a problem many other industries wish they could foresee...
...fell sloop suddenly take over the shipping world. We also think that she had second thoughts about setting up housekeeping in Moscow, in a little flat with his mother, I mean, we couldn't picture Christina washing Sergei's socks and shorts in the kitchen sink and eating borsch on a table covered with an oilcloth, for heaven's sake...
...Defense Department as potentially one of the most important weapons in the U.S. arsenal. One version is designed to be launched from a submarine, fly as far as 2,000 miles and deliver its nuclear warhead within a few yards of its target. Another version, intended to sink enemy ships, carries a conventional warhead and has a range of more than 240 miles. Last week, at the Pentagon's invitation, about 40 reporters and photographers joined Defense Secretary Harold Brown on San Clemente Island to watch the submarine U.S.S. Guitarro launch an antiship Tomahawk off the California coast. While...