Word: sunk
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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France, so often a beacon of Western civilization, was sunk in torpor. Silly fads, from existentialism to intimatism, ruffled the scum at the surface of French thought...
There was no evidence of skulduggery. Builder Hughes had reportedly sunk $7,000,000 of his own cash into the project. The Government money involved was peanuts by wartime standards: $18 million. At worst it was just another wartime idea gone sour, at some cost in time, materials and manpower...
...fired eleven workers who had joined a C.I.O. union, he said he was following the biblical exhortation: "Cast out the scorner and strife shall cease." On his return to the plant, Beltram, who presides at daily Bible classes for his workers, found that the lessons had sunk in. Pickets greeted him with a sign on which they too quoted freely from the Bible: "Masters, give unto your workers that which is just and equal." After another look at his Bible, Beltram rehired his workers, signed a union contract...
...long-range significance of the Nürnberg trial," Justice Robert H. Jackson, chief U.S. prosecutor of the top Nazis, once said, "lies in the effort to demonstrate ... the supremacy of law over such lawless and catastrophic forces as war. . . ." Had the lesson sunk...
...best kind of an investment if costs went higher and box office stayed up. But if box office skidded much more, it might be hard to make a profit on expensive pictures from the can. 20th Century-Fox's Production Chief Darryl F. Zanuck, with $12 million already sunk in Forever Amber and Captain from Castile, was worried enough to postpone a third costume spectacle...