Word: sunk
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Soon after she plunged into the water for her record swim across Lake Ontario last summer, Toronto's Marilyn Bell felt a gnawing sensation at her middle. A sea lamprey, one of millions of the slimy, eellike creatures that infest the Great Lakes, had sunk its teeth through her bathing suit, and was trying to attach its bloodsucking mouth to her body. It was as bad a moment as Marilyn had in the whole 21-hour ordeal. "I struck hard at it with my hand," she said later, "and my blow knocked...
...Cornell game the Crimson started to score only when it was too late to change the predicted outcome of the contest. Five of the nine varsity tallies were sunk in the final few minutes of the last half. The Crimson began slowly in the first half, tired in the start of the last half, and then seemed to gain the notorious second wind...
...southern approaches to Japan's Inland Sea. Though Commander Richardson's Walrus blows a whole Japanese convoy apart, a shell from Bungo Pete cracks Richardson's leg. After sweating out the hospital and a stretch of shore duty in Hawaii, he learns that Bungo Pete has sunk the Walrus, skippered by his former executive officer. With a fury worthy of Melville's Captain Ahab, Richardson takes another submarine straight to Bungo Pete's lair. One stormy night he lures Pete out, torpedoes Pete's tincan and his sucker-bait freighter, and to make vengeance...
...first glance, the humanities do seem to have sunk quite low. Since 1930, while college enrollment has increased by over 1,000, the number of humanities concentrators has dropped from 1,200 to less than 900. Coupled with the present drop in applicants to the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, the traditional stronghold of the humanities, these figures seem alarming. The stories of business personnel offices which are unusually unreceptive to applications from humanities majors, and recent statements from President Pusey and other educators, make the problem seem of vast proportions indeed...
Gauguin's latest biographers, the Hansons, are a British husband-and-wife team who have successfully sunk their teeth into some big, meaty subjects, including Necessary Evil: The Life of Jane Welsh Carlyle (TIME, May 19, 1952) and Chinese Gordon (TIME, May 31). Gauguin is an even tougher order, not only because he needs explaining as an artist who helped change the face of painting, but because he has become a symbol of the conflict between art and breadwinnery, artistic duty and normal social responsibility. In their fine study, the Hansons' own sympathy is with the artist...