Word: sunk
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...satirist, bile is almost as necessary as ink. Some, like Dean Swift, swim in it; others, like John Marquand, barely wet their prose in it; a few end by drowning in it. Japan's Ryunosuke Akutagawa was one of the hapless few; in 1927, sunk in pessimism and possibly near madness, he took an overdose of veronal and died. He was only 35, but the more than 100 short stories he wrote have since established him as Japan's most corrosive modern satirist...
When Charles Dickens was twelve, his spendthrift father was thrown in debtors' prison and little Charles was put to work in a shoe-polish factory. "No words," he wrote 25 years later, "can express the secret agony of my soul as I sunk into this companionship ... I know that, but for the mercy of God, I might easily have been, for any care that was taken of me, a little robber or a little vagabond...
...Blockade the Communist coast of Asia -"If the ship isn't operating to the advantage of free men who are dying on Korean ridges, then let the ship be turned back. Or sunk...
...supply for critical equipment. It wanted Willow Run but the only way it could get it-and thus prevent the Army from snatching it for tank production-was to take K-F in the package. There was another reason for giving K-F a contract: the RFC had just sunk another $25 million in the company and was anxious for a war contract to bail out the loan...
Jack Marshall's team is rough and high-scoring the Elis have sunk 40 goals to their opponents 15 and uses the same style of short passing as Crimson coach Bruce Munro. Built around Paul Deitsche, one of the best halfbacks in the East, the Elis are hot and cold, but Munro calls them "probably the best team we'll face all year...