Word: sunk
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Peaceful." Mayor Gayle and Police Commissioner Sellers rushed out with the cops to answer the alarm and found themselves up against a Negro crowd in the ugliest sort of mood. King's nonviolent teachings had sunk deep (since the boycott began, Montgomery's crimes of violence by Negroes have decreased by an estimated 20%), but at this moment the impulse to answer white violence with Negro violence seemed irresistible. A growl of fury came from the Negro crowd; there was a forward surge that left no doubt in the mind of anyone present that Mayor Gayle...
...life, the Rovensky mansion, with its deep-sunk. 6½-ft. marble tub serviced with brass swans' neck faucets and the 27-piece George I silver toilet service, is already as surely a thing of the past as the stately English homes for which the objects were first fashioned. Gone is the era in which the lady of the mansion and her good friend Grace Vanderbilt, who lived across 86th Street, would be chauffeured around the block to visit (because a lady went no farther than from her door to the curb on foot...
...warmer mid-20-degree weather brought in by a snow-bearing low pressure system should not last long. By late Friday or Saturday, temperatures will have once again sunk to near zero depth...
...Cuba, and his flag bore the device: "Brothers and comrades, let us follow the Cross, and if we have true faith in this symbol, we will conquer." The facts will always remain astonishing-how Cortés scuttled his ten ships (not "burned behind him," but dismantled and sunk, despite legend and the Encyclopaedia Britannica) and with his Aztec mistress, 400 Spaniards, 15 horses and ten cannons, advanced against the unknown things that lay behind an 18,000-ft. mountain wall. The fantastic outcome-in which Spanish chivalry and Christian faith matched themselves against the Mexican capital, set like...
...friend Nasser has sunk 21 ships, and I wish to God it had been 121." Thus Texas Independent Oil Producer H. P. Nichols hailed Egyptian President Gamal Abdel Nasser for blockading the Suez Canal. At the annual banquet of the West Central Texas Oil & Gas Association came more kudos. "As the person who has done the most for West Central Texas oilmen," Nasser was voted the members' "extinguished service" award: a bright pink chamber...