Word: sunk
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Literary Detective Vincent traces Melville's track, Melville thumbed through a compendium of sea catastrophes (given him by Hawthorne) and recalled the Essex disaster of 1820, in which a whaling ship had been sunk by a giant sperm whale in the Pacific. One report credited the tragedy to the whale "Mocha Dick," a white killer roaming murderously through the legends...
...government and the Kuomintang . . . had sunk into corruption, into a scramble for place and power, and into reliance on the United States to win the war for them ... Its leaders had proved incapable of meeting the crisis confronting them, its troops had lost the will to fight, and its government had lost popular support . . . History has proved again & again that a regime without faith in itself and an army without morale cannot survive the test of battle . . . The Nationalist armies did not lose a single battle during the crucial year of 1948 through lack of arms or ammunition . . . [They...
...dockers' stubbornness, there was little bitterness, no violence. Along winding narrow streets sunk deep between black warehouses, strikers with Sunday-slick hair ambled peacefully in a Sabbath-like quiet. Few trucks moved. Pickets applauded a truckload of soldiers who passed singing "Life gets teejus, don't it?" On the quayside where the soldiers were unloading ships, a striking foreman saw a cargo net threatening a young guardsman, cried out: "Mind there, son." He turned to a friend, said: "I wish those boys wouldn't take chances. They treat it like a big game...
...canal from Florida to Corpus Christi had already proved a lifesaver in World War II. While tankers were being sunk by submarines within sight of the coast, the canal barges were safe from attack. That boomed shipping on the canal from 7,000,000 tons (prewar) to a peak of 17,500,000 tons in 1944. There has been little tapering-off since...
...into action. What happened next shocked British witnesses and was soon to shock the world. One minute the swift battle cruiser Hood, biggest ship of the English fleet, was methodically firing from her 15-inch guns as she closed with the enemy. Two or three minutes later, she had sunk from sight. At around 25,000 yards, the Bismarck had sent the Hood down with only five or six salvoes. With another dozen or so, she drove the Prince of Wales out of action and got clean away...