Word: sinkings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...bathing-suit governments. Emergency measures that only a genuine government can apply are waiting to be taken. Italy, as Dante observed almost seven centuries ago in the Purgatorio, is once again "a vessel without a pilot in a loud storm." Unless serious steps are quickly taken, it may well sink before the winds and waves abate...
...Valuable Player in 1973, limped to the dugout at Baltimore's Memorial Stadium with a painful nerve in his right leg. Saying "My leg may hurt, | but I can still swing the wood," Jacks son, one of the most feared hitters in I the game, saw his average sink to a still sizzling .390. He acknowledged I a little sadly, "I probably won't hit - .400 this season, but I'm still the greatest in the game...
...pastureland marked by barns and silos rolls by. A horse stands blank-faced behind a wooden fence. Rows of trailer homes extend to the edge of the train tracks. An elderly woman, her apron stained with the morning's chores, is on her knees under the kitchen sink, banging away at a clogged pipe. "If this damned sink gets stopped up one more time..." she whispers angrily, thinking of her husband's disappointment when he returns from the repair shop to find that she has not yet prepared his usual big Sunday lunch. And she was going...
...Compleat Angler, published in 1653, remains as fresh today as it was in Oliver Cromwell's time. Through Walton, millions of readers have learned to put as much lead "as will sink the bait to the bottom and keep it still in motion, and not more," and that "when the wind is south, it blows your bait into a fish's mouth." Through Walton's American disciple, Washington Irving, millions more have been apprised of the fact that "there is certainly something in angling ... that tends to produce a gentleness of spirit, and a pure serenity...
...widely varying political and philosophical points of view. Soon after the cranberry case, he became a primary assistant to his senior partner, Joseph N. Welch, in the famous Army-McCarthy hearings; Welch, as counsel for the Army, engaged in some historic televised clashes with Joseph R. McCarthy that helped sink the Wisconsin Senator's career. More recently, St. Clair won a pioneering case in 1967 upholding the constitutionality of a Massachusetts law that categorizes marijuana as a narcotic drug and thus outlaws its possession and sale. A year later he successfully defended Yale Chaplain William Sloane Coffin Jr. during...