Word: sunk
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...fellow citizens to face the errors of the past so that they may grapple more knowingly with the realities of the future. Paradoxically, the book's existence seems to refute some of its charges. If the great debate on America's international aims had sunk to "a stammering of scarcely sensible noises," as Author Hughes asserts, he would have no audience to address. If latter-day U.S. foreign policy had failed as persistently as Author Hughes argues it has. there would be no great expectations to invoke or disappoint, either at home or abroad...
Signs of Progress. At home Ayub Khan cleaned house by firing some 2,000 corrupt bureaucrats, cracked down on black-marketeers and hoarders, collected long overdue taxes, and even retrieved two tons of gold from the sea, where it had been sunk by smugglers. Big landowners were forced to disgorge 3,000,000 acres for distribution to landless peasants. Fifty thousand Moslem refugees who had fled India twelve years ago were moved from fetid mud-and-straw shantytowns on the edge of Karachi into newly built camps. Foreign reserves have nearly doubled, industrial production has jumped by 10% and, even...
...Kurita's powerful fleet steamed through Palawan Passage toward the Sibuyan Sea early on the morning of Oct. 23, it was flushed by patrolling U.S. submarines Darter and Dace. The subs attacked. Before they were through, they had crippled heavy cruiser Takao, sunk heavy cruiser Maya and Kurita's flagship, heavy cruiser Atago. Kurita himself had to swim to save his skin. A Japanese destroyer picked him up, and he sailed on, still in command of five battleships, seven heavy cruisers, two light cruisers and eleven destroyers...
...Yamashiro, heavy cruiser Mogami and destroyer Shigure still in action. Oldendorf had achieved the naval commander's dream: with his battle line he had capped the T of Nishimura's little column. At 0419 Yamashiro went down, taking Admiral Nishimura with her. Mogami got away but was sunk in the pursuit that came later, leaving Shigure the only ship afloat of Nishimura's force...
...Kurita. All "Ziggy" Sprague could do was to make smoke, launch his aircraft and run for his life. In the running fight, Kurita lost three heavy cruisers, one light cruiser, and three destroyers. But Sprague lost two destroyers, a destroyer escort, one baby flattop (another, the St. Lo, was sunk later by a Japanese kamikaze). He took hits on two carriers, a destroyer and destroyer escort and seemed doomed to far worse. Then came an amazing turnabout. Still recovering from his swim off Palawan Island, bedeviled by the destroyers, Kurita broke off the action, headed back through San Bernardino Strait...