Word: sunk
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Hayataka-class* carrier sunk; two tankers sunk; a destroyer sunk; another Hayataka-class carrier "severely damaged and left burning furiously"; a Zuikaku-class carrier hit by three 1,000-lb. bombs; a light Zuiho-class carrier hit by two aerial torpedoes; another light carrier perforated by seven 500-pounders; a Kongo-class battleship, three cruisers, two destroyers and three tankers damaged. Of the few Jap planes remaining to defend their ships 26 had been shot down...
After the scope of the project had sunk in, Pogue announced the really big news. He indicated that this was no phony warmup; this was the takeoff. He wanted to wait no longer for the U.S. to get its props into the postwar air. In short, he would open pre-hearing conferences, at which the applicants could show why they should get the best routes-within three weeks...
...what good does it do me? Last Friday I ran up to Memorial Hall to take my exam in Physics. I just sunk my teeth into the juiciest problem you ever saw, when "Bang Bang, Bwrrr-Bwrrr?Bwrrr," Cambridge starts drilling holes in Cambridge Street outside. After three-quarters of an hour of this, they carted me away to Stillman in a shoebox, kicking and screaming. I'm calm now, but I've got three more exams this week...
...While the amount of damage inflicted on the enemy (in the Kula Gulf engagement) could not be accurately determined, it is probable that two Japanese destroyers were sunk. . . ."-Our Navy at War, Official Re- port by Admiral Ernest J. King, March...
...From the 15th Century on, people tried to raise them, merely succeeded in damaging them with grappling hooks. From the 16th Century on, divers brought to the surface excited reports and portable relics. In 1896 the eminent marine engineer, Vittorio Malfatti, worked out a feasible plan for raising the sunk galleys. But it remained for Benito Mussolini to carry out the plan. By his order a Roman drainage tunnel, which led out under a mountain, was reopened. Four huge electric pumps were installed. With his own hand II Duce started the pumps (1928). A little less than three years later...