Word: sunk
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...animals exposed to the atom-bomb blast and radiation in the 1946 Operation Crossroads, none won greater fame than Pig No. 311. A wriggly, 50-lb. shoat, No. 311 was locked in the officers' head (toilet) of the Japanese light cruiser Sakawa. Hours later, after the Sakawa had sunk, No. 311 was found swimming gamely in the radiation-polluted waters of Bikini Lagoon. She was irritable, and had a low blood count, but 'within a month she seemed to have recovered...
...months seven U.S. oil companies have folded their rigs and suspended drilling in Colombia. Last week Shell, having sunk $90 million trying to get profitably established, announced that it was forced to curtail operations. That left only two small outfits drilling for new fields in Colombia. Three big U.S. companies (Socony-Vacuum, Texaco and Jersey Standard's Tropical) have put too much money into old, producing fields to pull out now; but they have virtually given up trying to find new oil for the present...
...Dreamer. In a Guatemala City boarding house, rancor spilled from another Dominican exile. Ex-Millionaire Juan Rodriguez, who had sunk his fortune into the Legion, blamed Figueres for "playing ball with other factions." With a distasteful glance at the litter of papers in his shabby room, he sighed: "I never thought I'd come to Central America. But to kick out Trujillo, I'd go to China, or Japan-or even to hell...
Both teams played cautiously at first. With Don Lofgran sinking a succession of rebounds, San Francisco went ahead. By half time, the Dons were leading 27-19, and Lofgran had scored 17 points. Kerris, forced from his favorite under-the-basket spot by good San Francisco defensive tactics, had sunk only three...
...jungles, many still dress in leaves, hunt with bow and arrows. The other four-fifths, touched by government, missionaries and modern industrialism, have found that civilization can be as ruthless as the man-eating tigers around their native villages. Cut off from their primitive tribal customs, most adibasis have sunk to the level of coolies...