Word: sinks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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There was no wind, but it was cool and near sunset. He stood, in that bored, absent-minded way which for him meant intense concentration, looking over the Yard. He twirled his umbrella slowly and let the feeling of the familiar sun-speckled paths, trees, angles, and shapes sink through him. He felt that summer, with its horde of lady students and professors in linen suits and laughter and heat, had not quite left, and he was disappointed. Perhaps he had returned too soon...
...should be told that it is sometimes a duty, for the sake of human progress, to commit crime. Children, said he also, should learn that it is sometimes necessary to defy their parents. His thesis: if nobody ever broke a bad law, mankind would eventually get into a rut, sink back into savagery...
...Sailors' Union of the Pacific shortly will be chartered as the A. F. of L. union for seamen on all coasts, will join longshoremen, waterfront teamsters, licensed officers in a new Maritime Department. Eventual object is not only to run Sailor Curran off the eastern waterfronts, but to sink his western .friend and mentor, C. L O. Longshoreman Harry Bridges...
...anguished Laocoon group, it utters an almost Biblical warning. As for the "timeliness" that the Mercury Theatre noted, there are speeches like Shot-over's: "The Captain is in his bunk, drinking bottled ditchwater; and the crew is gambling in the forecastle. She [the ship] will strike and sink and split. Do you think the laws of God will be suspended in favor of England because you were born...
...enter the ring, sit around a table, get three steins filled with colored water which resembles beer.* They sip their drinks, act increasingly tipsy, stagger around the ring, finally gulp down the water. While a trainer sings Show Me the Way To go Home, one by one the elephants sink to the ground, pretend to pass...