Word: sunk
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Moran, U.S.N., 63, jut-jawed World War II captain of the light cruiser Boise, who won fame for his part in the 1942 night battle of Cape Esperance, off Guadalcanal (he ordered on contact: "Pick out the biggest one and fire!"), in which half a dozen Japanese warships were sunk in 27 minutes of close-range shelling; in Paris...
...SUNK ISLAND (221 pp.)-Hubert Nicholson-Coward-McCann...
...same--vibration you know. The boats are out here every day, weather permitting, until the last Sunday of September ... Lovely weather for swans and all that. Of course, we wouldn't keep them out in a northeaster' or a hurricane. They've never tipped over or sunk, thank...
...readers don't know that Harvard has not experienced a religious renascence, we can only hope such unconvincing misinterpretations will appear obvious, and will give the lie to Newsweek's Easter Feature generally. The spirtual ripple caused by a slight increase in church attendance and a lot of money sunk into the Divinity School has been magnified out of all proportions...
...Egypt's way. Nasser did not mind if the $20 million which the U.N. had spent in clearing the canal was added to the regular tolls, though he would not consent to Egypt's paying any of the costs for raising the hulks which the Egyptians had sunk...