Word: sunk
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...taken the floor to sound one theme: I have voted for each single step. I have voted for each dollar of defense appropriations. But the U.S. stands now at the crossroads (or maelstrom or precipice). If we send our ships directly into British and Russian ports they will be sunk American boys will be killed, the U.S. will be inflamed, the U.S. will go into war, and the U.S. is not now equipped to win that...
...July 10, 1941, the Italians said they had sunk her with air bombs off the Balearic Islands. She had just come to the Mediterranean, but was unhurt...
London said: "The Italians, having sunk the Ark Royal so many times, must be getting short of real information...
They had three consolations. Only one of Ark's 1,575 officers and men was lost. After all the Axis claims, the Ark's loss was announced to the world, not by the Axis but by the British Admiralty. And she had been sunk by a U-boat,† had not suffered the final indignity of being sunk by an Italian submarine...
...consolations were not enough. Old Unsinkable was sunk...