Word: sunk
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...bombardment ; in World War II he used it. He also reasoned that land-based aircraft, because of their longer range, would be more effective than carrier planes as submarine killers. As chief of Britain's Coastal Command, Slessor amply proved his point: of the 280 German U-boats sunk by British aircraft, land-based planes sank...
...deliberately chose to move the play as close to the audience as possible. Instead of performing on Sander's stage, they use a highly symbolic set built on a semi-arena sunk into the floor. This decision was a good one; instead of an aloofness, designer Webster Lithgow has produced a feeling of closeness that adds to the intensity. One can only wish that the individual components of the set were larger and placed further apart. Lighting, by Campbell Steward, and costumes, by Leslie Van Zandt, were excellent...
...went into the shipping business to handle the trade. He built up a fleet of six ships, turned them over to the Allies during the war, and put in a tour of North Atlantic destroyer duty with the Greek navy. At war's end, with half his fleet sunk, Niarchos started building up a tanker fleet, was able to finance the building and purchase of 36 vessels by chartering them in advance to big oil companies...
...with imported air and made habitable. If such caves are lacking, a good place to found a city would be the "Straight Wall," a vertical cliff 500 ft. high to the lunar north of Tycho crater. Tunnels could be cut into its face more easily than they could be sunk from the surface. They should run about 50 or 60 ft. below the ground. At this depth their atmosphere, exerting an upward pressure of 1,440 Ibs. per sq. ft., would balance the weight of the rock overhead. Props would not be necessary...
...party, decked out with a tall tree, stacks of packages wrapped in red ribbon-and twelve children (from Balanchine's School of American Ballet) tumbling about the stage in colorfully costumed tumult. Then, when the last guest had gone, and Clara, the little daughter of the house, had sunk into a Christmas night dream, the grownups took over. In Act II came the company's stars, one after the other, to dance through Clara's dream. Among them were Maria Tallchief as the Sugar Plum Fairy, Nicholas Magallanes as her Cavalier, and Tanaquil LeClercq as the Dewdrop...