Word: sunk
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Half a dozen other vessels were sunk, or beached to avert sinking; a third capital ship, the durable Jap Nagato, wallowed and sank. Nobody yet knew how many submarines were crushed. For a single bomb it was a dreadful toll...
...British were sunk in sentimentality and longing for the good old days that never were. At London's Mall concerts, the bands throbbed Rose-Marie, Alice Blue Gown and Ah! Sweet Mystery of Life. In nightclubs, heavily curtained against outside noise and austerity, singers crooned: She Had to Go and Lose It at the Astor and Money Is the Root of All Evil...
...name, he said, was "Juke." He was a little 125-lb. fellow. His eyes were sunk back in his ash-colored face; there was grime under his eyes and pasted into the wrinkles around his mouth and on his forehead. He wore a shirt that was once white; now it was black and yellow and there was spaghetti sauce over the left breast. His breath had the smell of vomit and cheap booze. Juke was unmistakably one of West Madison Street's citizens...
...five ships sunk* were almost directly beneath the point of detonation (probably 500 yards short of the aiming point, and only half as high), and their passing left a hole roughly half a mile in diameter in the target array...
...first big ocean race in eight years. The sailors, mostly salty socialites, sweated in Newport's Brenton Cove to get their 34 yachts ready. A few first-timers got jitters; in the past a boat or two had sunk on the 635-mile thrash to Bermuda...