Word: sinkingly
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...Kiley '81 outstroked his opponents by a full five seconds to land the 500-yd. freestyle, and later went on to sink the opposition in the 200-yd. version. Junior Eric Seder also proved a dominant double-winner, as he outraced Engineer Mark Huntziner by two seconds in the 200-yd. backstroke, and then sprinted to victory in the 100-yd. back...
...also smothers its beat in interminable bouts of rhetoric. If a character says, "We are all in this together," rest assured you have not heard the line for the last time. He can achieve piercing moments of self-revelation, only to resort to vaudevillian bits of bawdry or sink into bathos...
When Shakespeare called England "this royal throne of kings, this scepter'd isle," he was merely stating the facts. For more than 900 years British monarchs have bought, begged, borrowed and stolen enough treasure to sink the island: castles, palaces, crowns and jewels, fabulous bric-a-brac, artistic masterpieces beyond prodigality...
...certainty that there will be more than 1,700 "nickel-and-dime" disasters. The public, she laments, seems unconcerned. "The trade-off is almost made - a viable coast for the plunge offshore, for a few more moments of twilight before the oil lamp goes out, for prolonging the ocean-sink concept until some version of Black Mayonnaise hits us in the face, the nostrils...
...predicted an electoral victory of the left that would have given President Giscard the unhappy prospect of appointing a Socialist as his Premier and seeing Communists in the Cabinet. But a serious political falling-out between Communist Boss Georges Marchais and Socialist Party Leader Francois Mitterrand seemed to sink that possibility; in an attempt to update their common program, the two could not agree on the extent to which some of the nation's top industries should be nationalized once the left assumed power...