Word: sunk
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...little before that time, 25 of the plotters drifted casually around; four dozen others crouched in nearby thickets, ready to storm in. At the appointed minute, the gates flew open-disclosing two tanks and a platoon of soldiers drawn up with automatic weapons ready. "We're sunk!" whispered one attacker. Other troops closed in on the conspirators in the bushes, and the whole crew was arrested...
...fine exclusive story. He reported the secret testimony before the Kefauver crime committee of Chicago's Democratic candidate for Cook County sheriff, "Tubbo" ("richest cop in the world") Gilbert. Largely as a result of Brennan's story, Gilbert and the entire Cook County Democratic machine were sunk on election day. But a federal grand jury indicted Brennan for impersonating a federal employee to get the secret testimony. Reporter Brennan won the first round of his case when the Government dropped its charges because of "questionable" evidence (TIME, Feb. 2). The Department of Justice had him indicted afresh. Last...
...camp, attended a religious service in one of the mine pits worked by Lithuanians: "We walked down passages that were full of people and eventually came to a disused gallery which ended in a little crypt. About 20 men had collected there. All were standing in silence: they were sunk in prayer. They felt quite safe here. No soldier who values his life would ever venture down into...
...show went on, Teacher Bill Smith, 49, a veteran staffer on Broadway's weekly trade sheet Billboard, became more and more embarrassed. The trip, he decided, was a terrible mistake. He had forgotten how low burlesque had sunk. But his students showed nothing but scholarly interest in the struts, bumps and grinds, the unprintable gags. Gushed one mink-coated student: "I always thought it was much, much worse than this...
Essentially the same problem which sunk The Suspects besets Witness for the Prosecution. Mystery stories, with their pat situations and inevitable chains of clues, may seem real to a reader who can make good use of his imagination. On stage, the same situations take on an absurdity which no amount of courtroom hysterics, tearing of hair, and general melodrama can erase. Two hours do not furnish enough time to develop the complex details of a murder, and at the same time create characters who even remotely resemble real people...