Word: sunk
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Robert McNamaras, the Henry Fords, the John Drexels, the Alfred Vanderbilts, the William Fulbrights, the Kennedy brothers, and rafts of diplomats and fashion plates, the audience of 3,800 first-nighters provided a show-stopping spectacle of animated finery. The total weight in diamonds and emeralds alone could have sunk Cleopatra's barge, and the gold lame could have papered the Met walls. On the whole, the fashion was strictly haute, although here and there a kooky costume or two dazed the 3,000 or so beholders who checked over the operagoers as they arrived. The wife...
...over two years ago, Italy seemed to stand on the brink of disaster. Even though industrial productivity was growing, the cost of living was rising more quickly-8.8% in a year and 20% in three years-than anywhere else in the Common Market. Gold and foreign-exchange reserves had sunk to a precarious $2.1 billion, the balance-of-payments ledger showed a deficit of $1.2 billion, and devaluation of the lira was under serious discussion...
...told, McCoy's Navy has killed 665 Viet Cong, destroyed 4,367 buildings, sunk 297 gunrunning sampans, and fired 31,251 rockets. Most important, not a single South Vietnamese outpost within range of his rockets has been overrun during the three months his "little armada" has been in action. "The PT was the boat of World War II," he says...
...communications system; a jungle trail that suddenly peters out can pinpoint the entrance to a labyrinth of V.C. tunnels; a road that goes nowhere can lead the photo interpreters to a hidden oil dump. It requires infinite patience. "A road ends at a river where the ferryboat has been sunk by bombing," says Captain John Irwin, a Recce Tech officer. "Where is the new ferryboat? We study the riverbank and find a bush that wasn't there a week ago. Bushes don't grow that fast...
...late October, 1956 came the Anglo-French-Israeli attack, and the canal was blocked by bombing and by hulks sunk by the Egyptians. A U.N. salvage effort, directed by U.S. Lieut. General (ret.) Raymond A. Wheeler, cleared the canal the following April, earlier than expected...