Word: sinkings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...sink like a stone...
...five years ago, Bob Dylan's warning to a stick-in-the-mud establishment became a call to arms for a generation of artists and writers determined to burst through the barricades and foment change. Dozens of "alternative" publications were born in the anarchic '60s and '70s only to sink like stones by the straight-arrow '80s. The few that survived are now finding themselves on the receiving end of Dylan's message...
...Jones may bear the name of a famous railroad engineer, but last year he acted more like a wise ship captain. When the Boston Celtic ship started to sink, Jones jumped overboard...
Peggy Noonan, a former White House speechwriter and Reagan favorite, was driving with her mother from a supermarket in suburban Virginia when she heard a radio sound bite of Bush's "I'm one of you" quote. She felt her stomach sink. She called Fuller, who told her to be on Air Force Two the next afternoon for Bush's return to New Hampshire. Sitting next to Bush on the plane, she tried to make sense of what he was trying to say about himself. His hands fluttered near his chest, as if seeking his heart, and he said softly...
When the pigskin flies in Harvard Stadium this afternoon, patrons of Humperdink's in Dallas will sink their teeth into Harvard burgers and Yale burgers...