Word: sunk
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Mary Luckenbach, had listed so quickly and sharply to port that it had been impossible to get her boats away. She had sunk in less than half an hour...
...outlying areas, keep in touch with each other through a new clearinghouse, which would also be located outside the city. No plans have yet been made to remove the billions of dollars in securities, notes and valuables which New York banks now have stored in their vaults. The vaults, sunk in solid Manhattan Island rock as deep as five stories down, are bombproof...
...spectres, Delano and the two maidens slid into the [ruffians' den]; and the young lieutenant . . . instantly singled out the chief from among his sleeping comrades, and with one fierce thrust, sent his cutlass directly through his body, and with such force, that the keen weapon was deeply sunk in the floor." The climax of The Signal; or, The King of the Blue Isle, by E. Curtiss Hine, was at hand. When Delano had finished his bloody work, "three hundred corpses lay strewn about the room...
...running battle, Chiang Kai-shek's airmen machine-gunned and bombed the blockade-running ships, strewed clusters of floating mines in their path. Last week Hong Kong's merchants gave up, for the time being stopped further shipments to Red ports. The Nationalists' score: three ships sunk, two ships damaged, one ship captured. The casualties included vessels flying the British, Panamanian, Norwegian and Greek flags. By week's end more mines sighted in the Formosa straits caused the Communists to close the port of Shanghai to all shipping...
When 34-year-old Washington Correspondent James Arthur Wechsler became editor of the New York Post a year ago (TIME, June 6, 1949), Publisher Dorothy Schiff was just about ready to sell her tabloid or shut it down. She had sunk "millions of dollars" into the preachily liberal Post, and had neither the cash nor the desire to go on losing so liberally. Editor Wechsler decided on a drastic change...