Word: sunk
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...stop the Russians. The higher-ups concentrated on background briefing U.S. columnists and pundits-many of them still awallow in the wash of the sunken Adlai Stevenson-to the effect that Secretary Dulles had really been something of a failure (which was the British-French, as well as the sunk Stevensonian line...
Career: At 30, became assistant private secretary to Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden. First foreign assignment: Peking. While chargé d'affaires in Athens in 1941, he escaped the Nazis by sailing for Crete on a yacht, was rescued when the yacht was sunk by German planes. During assignment to Allied North African Headquarters, he worked with many Americans now in key spots in Washington, including Dwight Eisenhower. Later he became British head of the Anglo-American political section of Allied Control Commission in Italy, then, in 1944, troubleshooter in liberated Greece. After the war, he helped reorganize Britain...
...also smell its prey without breathing. When the snake's forked tongue flicks in and out, it conveys odor-laden air to smell organs inside the mouth. After the snake has sunk its fangs in a small, warm animal, it does not try to hold it. The animal runs a few feet or yards until the poison brings it down. Then the snake follows by scent, flicking its delicate tongue, and starts the slow business of swallowing the meal. The injected venom contains a substance that starts the digestive process before the animal reaches the snake's stomach...
...similarly threatened. One wife was told by a major that it would be better for her husband's career if she left. Some reluctant officers were summarily transferred to Okinawa, where the U.S. can control entry of dependents. Reported one marine wife: "The morale of the Corps has sunk to the lowest level I've seen in my 13 years...
Wolfson's difficulties were reflected in Merritt-Chapman & Scott's stock. During the past two years, in the midst of the great bull market. Merritt-Chapman & Scott shares have sunk lower and lower, from...