Word: sunk
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Ralph Delair stayed in the fields until the sun had sunk over the low hills in the west. Then he milked his cow again, fed his stock, covered the tractors for the night, ate a supper of roast beef, potatoes, biscuits. When the dark came, he was in the old-fashioned sitting room off the kitchen, smoking his pipe, listening to the radio, reading what old William Allen White had to say about weather and politics in the Emporia Gazette. At 9:30 he was in bed, sound asleep, not hearing the stinging Kansas wind whipping the darkened house...
...Pravda estimate of Adolf Hitler's staggering losses on the eastern front: 300,000 dead between Dec. 6 and Jan. 15, 6,000,000 casualties in the first five months of war. There was the heartening report of the Red Navy: 81 Axis warships and 276 auxiliary vessels sunk in seven months. But the real news, it became clear, would come on Red Army Day, probably as a special communique detailing vast and startling Russian recapture of German-occupied territory...
...transatlantic raid, had won the first round of the battle of the Caribbean. Aruba was shelled twice (without material damage to the refinery). The raiders had accounted for seven of the shallow-draft tankers that carry oil from the Lake of Maracaibo to the islands. They had sunk four big ocean tankers, had put torpedoes into two freighters anchored off Trinidad. Total Axis casualties: three submarines, probably (but not positively) sunk by depth charges off Aruba...
...from the first class, nearly half have already been in action. Two more were killed at Pearl Harbor on December 7, at least one member is a prisoner in Japan, and one each was stationed on the "Kearney," "Salinas," "Neches," "Oklahoma," and "Arizona," all of which have been sunk since the beginning...
...ships were sunk along our eastern coast...