Word: sunk
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...rescue and fired pointblank. More infuriated, the beast turned upon the firer, bit him furiously. White seized the fallen gun and fired the second shot, only to draw the leopard's attack on himself with such force that he was knocked down, leopard's teeth sunk in his shoulder. The two bearers were helpless from their wounds, the rest of the party at a distance. But White managed to unsheath his hunting-knife and sink it in the beast's throat...
...years ago today the Lusitania was sunk by a German submarine. America needed just that shock to force active participation in the world war. The bitter wave of hatred which followed in the wake of this calamity swept America forward to the rescue of the Allied nations. It was for is great cause...
...three days the battle raged. One of the Black airplanes on reconnaissance was shot down. Two Blue destroyers and a minelayer unwarily came within range of the land batteries, and one of them was sunk. A Blue submarine caught sunning itself on the surface was sent to the bottom by a Black submarine tender . When the Blues pressed the attack, the umpires described the casualties as "very heavy"; in other words, the carnage was great. Tn the final attack, the Blues succeeded in capturing Haleiwa, a commanding position over the Pearl Harbor base. Promptly they were con ceded the victory...
...demanded, first of all, his pipe. The bowl, the fiddlers three were afterthoughts. Such persons belong to the Old Jimmy-Pipe Club, a somewhat fatuous association fostered chiefly by columnists, mass advertisers and female novelists desirous of articulating Big He-Men; for, since Cole's day, tobacco has sunk to a low place in literature. The cigar usually proceeds from the stained teeth and loose lips of Mammon. The cigaret has become a stock in- gredient of feminism and neurasthenia...
...rare that either crew defaults until its boat is actually sunk. In 1912, both boats sank, the race was rowed over again, Oxford...