Word: sunk
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...raced down the Seine on the crest of the tide. Off the village of Quillebeuf, she hit a sandbank, broached to and capsized. By the time her captain and crew of twelve had swum the 120-odd meters to shore, the Télémaque had sunk...
...pulled himself out by a deal with North American Aviation which had sunk $8,000,000 into making the Navion, a small private plane. Ryan bought the Navion project, hauled off the tools, parts, blueprints, etc. in a caravan of trucks. His small plant enabled him to keep down costs and, by upping the Navion's price, he was soon making money selling between 350 and 500 a year (the Army alone bought 250 Navions, now uses them as "flying staff cars" in Korea...
...Captain (later Rear Admiral) Hideo Hiraide who broke the news to the Japanese people on Dec. 7, 1941: "In the early morning, units of the imperial navy launched an attack on Pearl Harbor ... Two battleships sunk, four severely damaged . . ." Last week Admiral Hiraide and 451 others, put on a war-criminal purge list in 1946 by General Douglas MacArthur, were de-purged by the Japanese government. Admiral Hiraide died in 1948, but his de-purging is more than a posthumous attempt to blot out the stain on the family escutcheon. Under the original stiff occupation rules, purged men and their...
...Kent to save his skin. One man escapes with him, his young orderly, Anson. The two men make a long hike to safety, but one night, with shells and men screaming around him, Kent puts his arms around Anson. Before Captain Kent's war is over, he has sunk himself in a degrading attachment, killed a man who threatened to expose him, and made a fainthearted try at suicide...
...stay in the running for the crown. High scorer for the Deacons was Jim Urdan, netting 17 points. A win for Kirkland against first place Lowell this Friday would tie the league championship. In other "A" League games the AROTC lost to Lowell 37 to 25, and Adams sunk the NROTC 26 to 24. "B" League scores were: Dudley 38, Lowell 32; Winthrop 48, Kirkland...