Word: sunk
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...meeting, submitted a 39-page report to President Eisenhower on the "spiritual resources for brotherhood" in the U.S., ranging from its Judaeo-Christian heritage to the Supreme Court ruling on desegregation. Eisenhower told the group: "Without a concept of the dignity of man founded on religious faith, we are sunk...
...France sunk so low that the only means a French Premier has of gaining support is to thumb his nose at France's allies, even at the risk of sacrificing the future of Western civilization in Europe...
...diabolical scheme this year to confuse the voters and keep registration down. Roared Irving Ives: "These Tammany-picked candidates, to hide their ignorance of state affairs, have fallen back on the last resource of sordid politics . . . This year they are so desperate and contemptible that they have sunk to the level of trying to stir up people to hate other people because we are respecting the holiest days of the religion of many of our people...
...film version of Guys and Dolls, will give him a chance to show how well he can warble and hoof, but it hardly brings him any closer to Hamlet. And after Hollywood, where can Brando go? Broadway? In the last 15 years the New York stage has sunk to a historical low in which whole seasons pass without a single first-rate play appearing. Furthermore, there is no U.S. repertory theater in which a young actor can try the great roles for size, and build his technique while he wins his public...
...criticized the flexible support plan on the grounds that "no one has yet proved that farmers will make the economic response to price flexing . . . There is good evidence that most farmers will not. Much of a farmer's costs is fixed and much of his property is in sunk investments, in specialized equipment and skills, which force him to keep right on producing even though the price is falling...