Word: sunk
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Marshall Club will represent the plaintiff--the Russian Steamship Company, which is claiming insurance proceeds of a Latvian ship which was sunk by the Germans during the war. Opposing them, the J. Smith Club will support the defendant--the United States Attorney General...
...Last week a Red tank prowling a frozen river was "sunk" when U.N. artillery fire holed the ice and the tank fell through...
...impatience led him into a dangerous spot in late 1940. When war orders were delayed by the reluctance of British firms to release patent rights, Howe sailed for Britain on the liner Western Prince to break the bottleneck. In the North Sea the ship was torpedoed and sunk by a German submarine. One of Howe's chief aides, Gordon Scott, was killed at his side. Howe and other survivors drifted for eight hours in a lifeboat before being rescued. At the dockside in Britain, a newsman asked Howe whether his whole life had flashed before him as he faced...
...himself could do the job that has to be done. People are looking for miracles, and I'd hate to see Dwight get in a wringer. He could swing his arms and thrash the water, but if Congress wasn't with him, then he'd be sunk ... I don't want him crucified. I'm sorry the country feels that there's only one man among all the citizenry who can . restore it to its position in the world...
...that what watertight integrity she possessed would collapse," he said, "sinking her immediately." The vessel's owners urged Carlsen by radio against "further risking your life." When the message was relayed, a new storm was smashing the ship, but he replied: "I am remaining till vessel saved or sunk...