Word: sinkings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...trying to keep its economic nose above water, and that it is trying to cut the cloth to what it has, not to what it would like to have. As we understand it, what the President is saying here is that the British are having to sink or swim in their effort to plant the seedbed of a viable economy, and that they cannot insist upon sewing too fine a seam in doing it. To put it another way and quite simply, the United Kingdom has its back to the wall in its Spartan efforts to climb...
...last week, Celtic Coach Red Auerbach's carefully devised playoff plans began to fall apart. Muscleman Jim Loscutoff and Rookie Tom Heinsohn could not seem to work the double pickoff play that was meant to give Sharpshooter Bill Sharman (TIME, Dec. 31) time and space in which to sink his shots. St. Louis' stringy little veteran. Slater Martin, was sticking to Celtic Bob Cousy like an overanxious bill collector. The slickest ball-handler in the game. Cousy shook himself loose and scored from the floor only twice in 20 tries...
Geologists have warned the city of Long Beach, Calif, (pop. 303,000) that if it does not do something fast, most of its harbor district, centering on the powerhouse of the Southern California Edison Co., will sink far below sea level...
...Sahara. From there the oil would travel 338 miles by train to the Mediterranean at Philippeville, Algeria. By 1960 Lemaire hopes to increase production to 70 million bbl. from reserves that are estimated at more than 7 billion bbl. To do it, the Cabinet also okayed his plan to sink 350 more wells. Another major problem is transporting so much oil across some 500 miles of desert to the sea, too big a job for two narrow pipelines and the railway. To get the oil out, Lemaire will lay down an null 530-mile pipeline from the wells directly...
...that improbable hour, silences the clanging, and plunges cloudily back into the sack whence he emerged, leaving his victimized comrade to sleep angelically through his 9 o'clock lecture. Invariably, moreover, he is at the toothpaste, in the shower, on the Seat, or at the sink at the precise moment you would like to use said utility. His timing is infallible...