Word: sunk
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Eliminate special marking requirements (e.g., the rule that every imported knife must have etched or die-sunk into it the name of the manufacturer or importer, and the country of origin...
...basic problem: overpopulation. Egypt's people, by doubling their number in the past 50 years, have made the narrow green belt along the Nile one of the most densely populated areas on earth. On the inflammable subject of the Suez Canal, the young officers have frequently sunk to old-style rabble-rousing, only to show a welcome moderation at crucial moments. Naguib and his fellow officers have also shown themselves devout Moslems without creating a theocratic state: Naguib astonished his Arab neighbors by sending greetings to the Egyptian Jews at Passover...
...Triumph. Not until the final putt had been sunk did Ben unbend. Then he doffed his cap and smiled for the crowd. At the trophy presentation, Hogan made a little speech: "I didn't come here to take home a trophy. Whether I won or lost was incidental. I came over here because a lot of people back home wanted me to, and some people over here...
Such lively doings have made the shopping centers magnets for money. The Equitable Life Assurance Society alone has sunk more than $20 million into three centers: Seattle's Northgate. Boston's Shoppers' World. San Francisco's Stonestown. Last week the Commerce Department attributed the 43% rise in commercial building outlays so far this year mainly to new shopping centers. Among the newest...
...grammatical error on his grandfather-in-law's tombstone. But he found it harder to meet the recurrent agony of writing: "A hundred pages more, and this cursed book is flung out from me." Some days he had "the strength of 20,000 cockneys"; on others he was "sunk as in tropical oppression" with a "base, underhand desire to lie down in everlasting leaden sleep." Sometimes the limp writing hand he held out for Jane Carlyle to pat was only slapped, and Carlyle would whimper, "You are not good to me just now." But more often she fought...