Word: sunk
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...have sunk to a new low in slurring the opponents of the Great White Father who golfs on Mount Olympus...
...cans of beer to new residents of Milwaukee. Nobody ever turned down Pabst's friendly gesture, until last June. Then Dr. James Norwood, new pastor of the Greater Milwaukee Baptist Temple, shot off a heated refusal to Pabst's president : "It is a shame the clergy has sunk so low" that Pabst would "think the clergy would drink the damnable stuff." But last week Pastor Norwood and six other ministers attending a tristate Baptist Fellowship meeting in Milwaukee paid a surprise visit to the Pabst plant to become, as Norwood put it, "spies in the devil...
...pull all these stops out, NBC has sunk $12 million into color production (converting Manhattan's Ziegfeld Theater into a color studio and building the largest color studio in the world in Brooklyn). Seventeen different series of regular shows will be televised in color (compared to only three last year), and on some nights NBC will offer three consecutive hours of color shows, with at least one major show each night (or an average of 15 color hours a week...
...past year it has become the biggest of all Gulf Coast oil booms. Thirty-five companies have sunk 171 producing wells deep into the treeless flat, now get around 24,000 bbls. daily from the field. Said one Houston newsman: "The whole town is on the verge of being overrun by derricks." Oil rigs are creeping within 100 yds. of the residences and businesses off Houston's primary north-south thoroughfare, South Main Street. One derrick stands 75 yds. from the roller coaster at Playland Park: another is within No. 7-iron distance (125 yds.) of the South Main...
...legislative investigating committee, a lanky, 46-year-old Negro, serving his third term for robbery, was describing a desperate interlude at Georgia's Rock Quarry Prison near Buford last week. Some of his details invited dispute. But beyond dispute was the fact that inmates of Rock Quarry had sunk so low on the scale of human hope that they had ducked out of the searing sun into the shadow of a rock pile, had smashed each other's legs in a despairing gesture of mass protest...