Word: sunk
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Down, Down. Then, inch by inch, a snake crept into this oily Eden. Surveyors checking their lines during construction of a Navy drydock in 1941, noticed that the ground had sunk a little. Long Beach sages, only slightly alarmed, suggested various causes. It was an earthquake, maybe, or the result of dredging and filling in the harbor area. Few liked to mention the obvious conclusion: that the sinking of Long Beach was caused by extraction of the oil that was making the city rich...
...with dikes and retaining walls to keep the sea off the land. The Ford plant and the power station are protected by levees 20 ft. high. If nothing is done to stop it, says Geologist Frank S. Hudson, the sinking will continue until the center of the depression has sunk 72 ft. below high-water mark. If this happens, the harbor department alone will have to spend $60 million on subsidence remedies...
...Launched April 19, 1943, the U.S. Navy's Canberra commemorated the Royal Australian navy's Canberra, sunk by torpedo and shellfire eight months earlier during the Battle of Savo Island in the company of U.S. cruisers Quincy, Vincennes and Astoria...
...team since 1947 had sported a winning record, and basketball had sunk into a state of semi-abandon in the eyes of too many students...
...Bodman sunk two free throws and a basket at 14:30 to tie the score, 61-all. Then came Downs' nine points sandwiched around a Robinson tap-in, and the Elis were out in front to stay, 72 to 63. The rest was merely the formality of running out the clock, with Yale freezing the ball for a good portion of the last three minutes...