Word: sunk
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...merely writing a political pamphlet about an imaginary state. His contemporaries did not take him literally, but during the Middle Ages Plato gained such enormous authority that his political fantasy was accepted as sober fact. An Atlantis cult grew, and still flourishes. The myth has even multiplied, begetting Mu (sunk in the Pacific) and Lemuria (sunk in the Indian Ocean...
...mission had fed him a bowl of poisoned soup. Holohan merely got sick. The plotters had then drawn lots, and LoDolce, the loser, had gone to the major's bedroom and coldblooded y fired two pistol bullets into his head. The body had been weighted and sunk in the icy waters of the lake; the police found it where the witnesses said it was, dredged it up, found the two bullets and traces of potassium cyanide. They notified U.S. authorities...
Island of Desire (David Rose; United Artists) defies all the laws of probability by casting shapely Linda Darnell as a waspish spinster. Stunningly photographed in Technicolor, Actress Darnell portrays Lieut. Elizabeth Smythe, a Navy nurse who is washed up on an uninhabited Pacific island after a troopship is sunk during World War II. Washed up with her is a blond, boyish Marine corporal (Tab Hunter...
London's Sunday Observer was set to add its voice to the critical clamor until the cold facts sunk in. Instead, the Observer confessed: "Everything . . . turns on the question; Was there, prior to the Yalu raids, a lull, a tacit cease-fire or near-cease-fire in Korea?" The Observer had done a little quick homework and was startled by its findings: "The plain fact-continuous and hence unreported-is that there has been a long-drawn battle which has been in progress almost since the start of the armistice talks." In this light, the Observer was alarmed...
...shaft was sunk, and into it was built an Otis elevator big enough to hold stretcher and wheelchair cases. This cost $50,000. Airlocks were installed in the mine to seal in "curative" gases. To keep the procession of health-seekers in order, there is a flossy reception room where each visitor gets a number assigning him to a seat in the 85-ft. lateral. Downtown, a cashier handles the payoff: $100 for each visitor, which entitles him to four one-hour sessions underground...