Word: sunk
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Laski, always the lecturer, delivered a long harangue in answer to one question. Lord Chief Justice Goddard, who had sunk back in his chair, bored but still listening, sat bolt upright to translate to the jury. "The answer," he said, "is 'yes;' " and leaned back again...
Vince enlisted in the Navy in the spring of 1943 and later that year was a member of the crew of the U.S.S. Lansdale, which was sunk off Anzio Beach. In that engagement, he was wounded in both legs...
...structure which houses among other things, the original Handsome Dan, stuffed and mounted, and one of the country's finest indoor swimming pools with excellent seating accommodations for spectators. So numerous are the tiers of seats, placed almost vertically one above the other, that from the bottom one feels sunk in an enormous pit and from the top one has the sensation of an aerial view of the water below...
...Maxwell column, six weeks before the date, which remarked: "It is hard to persuade these rather timid, frightened Chicagoans to come as Rigolettos and Carmens, but I think they will see the light. . . ." Tickets went unsold at $50 a couple, then went unsold at $25. The project was sunk without a trace. Miss Maxwell's last words: "For some curious reason, which is quite inexplicable to me, apparently the public did not want to come...
Last week, near Fairbanks, Alaska, Army engineers were watching thermometers sunk in the icy subsoil under buildings and airports. Their job: to catch up with the Russians, leading authorities on Arctic construction problems...