Word: sunk
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...American people and nation we should thank God for Whittaker Chambers' book Witness [TIME, May 26]. There are so many Americans sunk in the depths of lethargy and indifference that a great number of our youth will probably never know who Chambers is or what Communism is, until it is too late. Witness should be used as a textbook in every one of our nation's high schools and junior colleges...
...their aristocratic hauteur terrifies the bandits who lurk in ambush about their tables, i.e., "doorman, door-opener, coat-hander, coat-taker, inside-door opener, up-the-stairs-pointer, director, headwaiter, assistant headwaiter . . . captain, waiter and bus boy." Lounging on luxurious hotel terraces, they nod to "Ali, Rita and Schiaparelli"; sunk in sofas "soft as a mudbath," they regale each other with romantic anecdotes of beautiful American heiresses, great dukes and greater maharajahs, heartbroken countesses and billionaires with huge cigars...
...those things made any crew jubilant. But then came the Japanese destroyers, the deep submersion, and the suspense at 300 feet below while depth charges searched for the sub, shaking her like a light bulb on a cord. The first time it happened to Trigger, Tokyo Rose claimed her sunk, then played a recording of Rocked in the Cra dle of the Deep. It was a characteristic Japanese extravagance: they claimed 468 subs in the course of the war. U.S. sub losses in the Pacific from all causes were 52 ships...
...dismantled the breeches buoy, the 'Poon had picked up a commanding lead, but ignoring the water now lapping into their boat, the surviving editors raised their stroke to an unprecedented 12, and had once again caught the 'Poon when, passing beneath the Weeks bridge, the shell was struck and sunk by a would-be suicide, finally allowing the 'Poon to win by a mere two lengths over the 23-cable-length course...
...first carrier Wasp, then commanded by the late Naval Chief of Operations, Admiral Forrest Sherman, was torpedoed by a Japanese submarine off Guadalcanal in 1942. Left a helpless cripple, she was sunk by guns of the Pacific Fleet...