Word: sunk
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...sharp cutbacks in its subsidies from Moscow and from the financially-pressed Italian Communist Party. But its most serious problem is shriveling circulation, now well below 300,000 from a 1953 peak of 1,574,000. So low has stodgy, 33-year-old L'Unità sunk in the eyes of its own staffers that meetings intended to rally support for a "stronger, better" paper in Turin and Genoa last week broke up amid angry attacks on the party bosses by sacked employees. Said one bitter laid-off newsman: "We're all sick to death of being told...
...power have found the germ of it in his approach to the music he conducts; like Toscanini, he tries to immerse his own personality in the personality he finds expressed in the score. The process is so absorbing that even at mealtimes he is likely to sit silent, sunk in mental rehearsal of selections from the file of music stored in his memory. He is largely self-taught. The son of a Munich insurance director, he studied piano privately, had only three months' instruction in conducting in 1942 at the Munich Hochschule für Musik before...
...idea of modern design into such areas as annual reports and office interiors, pioneered a new type of institutional advertising with his series on the "Great Ideas of Western Man." Paepcke started to develop Aspen as a sort of all-round cultural and sport center; he has already sunk $800,000 of his own money into the project...
...World War II in the Pacific was almost six months old. Pearl Harbor lay far behind, a symbol of heartbreaking disaster; Singapore had fallen, and so had Rangoon, and so had Corregidor. The U.S. fleet, though it had won a strategic edge, had been mauled, and the carrier Lexington sunk, in the Battle of the Coral Sea (May 4-8). Japan was threatening Australia, and her ships scouted with impunity around the Indian Ocean and Ceylon. The U.S., a long way yet from the glory days of island landings, had to latch on to the one little triumph of Jimmy...
Roger Wellincroft is told by his father to "go coortin' " Louisa Kilner for her "brass." To the God-fearing Yorkshire farm folk of the East Riding, brass is land, the deity they worship six days of the week. Louisa is to inherit her father's farm on Sunk Island-a flat, melancholy spit of land reclaimed from the Humber estuary. To Sunk Island, Roger goes a-coortin...