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Word: sinkings (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Nazie Sink Three Ships...

Author: By The ASSOCIATED Press, | Title: Over the Wire | 5/7/1940 | See Source »

...original plan had been to sink match-sticks into the plaster so that the mask could be stripped off in neat sections, but Trevaskis himself finally released the volcano-like heat by crushing the mask with his hands...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: KIRKLAND HOUSE SOPHOMORE TRAPPED IN HOT LIFE-MASK | 5/2/1940 | See Source »

...rate, the country should be told the real issues and stakes in the foreign situation. As things stand now, the Republicans have nothing to sink their teeth into, not that they would sink them even if they had anything. The problem is certainly important enough to deserve something more than evasions in the election this fall. The people are anxious to vote on our foreign policy, and indeed they must, if our road through World War II is to be anything better than the dark, rutted side-road...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: UNBLEACHED WHITE | 5/1/1940 | See Source »

...mine layer Olav Tryggvason put in there unexpectedly for repairs Monday evening, unbeknownst to the plotters. When, before dawn, she beheld German warboats coming in unchallenged, she promptly torpedoed the cruiser Emden and a submarine. One coast gun crew in the narrows above Horten remained loyal long enough to sink the Blucher, but a minefield in the narrows was rendered harmless by Nor way's betrayers, just as a message from Vidkun Quisling, the No. 1 Nazi Fifth Columnist at Oslo, got the invaders past the harbor guards at Bergen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AT SEA: Royal Navy's Test | 4/22/1940 | See Source »

...Playing with characteristic nonchalance, chatty Jimmy Demaret-in his first Masters-shot a 67 that included a prodigious six-under-par 30 for the second nine. It was the lowest nine-hole score ever recorded in a major golf tournament. Few minutes later, along came unheralded Lloyd Mangrum to sink a 30-ft. putt on the home green and chalk up a record-breaking, eight-under-par 64 (32-32), probably the most amazing 18 holes of competitive golf ever played...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Texas' Golf Masters | 4/15/1940 | See Source »

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