Word: sinks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...enormous crates. He cut open the side of the ship, pushed the dissected goddess straight into the hold. Throughout a 72-hour storm with canvas cut to staysail & spanker, Lieutenant de Drambour stayed on the bridge of his ship, while the crates shifted wildly, threatened any instant to sink him. Two days after his 20th birthday he dropped anchor off Sandy Hook, welcomed by the New York World, the New York Yacht Club, the U. S. Fleet, and a spanking good dinner at the Hoffman House...
...Velasco, came one of the most exciting rolls of film yet to be taken in Spain's civil war. Weeks ago, off the Galician fishing town of El Ferrol, the Velasco encountered the Loyalist submarine B6. A few lucky shots and the submarine was flooded. She began to sink by the stern. On deck a Rebel seaman snapped away industriously with his camera while the Loyalist crew huddled abaft the conning tower, while an overloaded lifeboat was filled with survivors, while the submarine dived straight down leaving the waters dotted with men swimming for their lives...
Even less solid stuff in which to sink a pen has been furnished by the New Deal's vast social and economic innovations. Republicans have jabbed hardest and oftenest at Spending & Taxation, with frequent digs at the Red Issue, Relief Corruption, Regimentation, Unemployment, Foreign Farm Imports. Democratic favorites have been Recovery and the Interests, nicely combined in pictures of plutocratic Old Deal ingrates howling calamity against a background of soaring business graphs and smoking factories...
Enter Lord and Lady Capulet, their nephew Benvolio, and a scowling, well-armed retinue. The Vagabond watches with bated breath as the Lord and Lady Montague, their nephew Tybalt, and their equally ferocious band of followers come into the square from a different entrance. Voices sink suddenly into whispers and the citizens' nerves are tensed awaiting the result of the meeting. It will not be pleasant...
...comrades who run the Soviet State Bank are in danger of their very lives if they guess wrong on how to handle its assets and up to last week many European economists had guessed-not knowing of the super-secret parleys-that once the franc sank the British would sink their pound even lower to retain .its competitive advantage in world trade. It was perfectly believable that the State Bank comrades had dumped their sterling simply because they had wrongly but honestly guessed that it was too hot for them to hold...