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Word: sunk (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...great man-you're constantly asking yourself, 'Do I measure up?' " Aging Henry J. now lives under the Honolulu sun, devotes much of his energies to the company's 6,000-acre Hawaii Kai real estate development, into which the Kaiser enterprises have sunk more than $25 million with little return. Edgar invariably sounds Henry J. out on all major decisions, and for more than sentimental reasons. After all, Edgar has three sons of his own-age 16 to 22-and he expects to be listened to when they take over...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Corporations: Kaiser's Spreading Empire | 3/26/1965 | See Source »

U.C.L.A. lacks Michigan muscle and height, but has managed to compile a 26-2 record this year with excellent ball-handling, an adhesive zone press, and the consistent shooting of Gall Goodrich and Keith Erickson. Goodrich, a Lilliputian 6-1, is averaging 23 points per game and has sunk 54 per cent of his field goal attempts this year...

Author: By R.andrew Beyer, | Title: The NCAA's: Princeton All the Way! | 3/18/1965 | See Source »

Pawlak displaced Sedlacek as the Ivy League's second leading scorer last Saturday. He is averaging 21.2 points a game, and has sunk 50.4 per cent of his field goal attempts this year. Neuman, who has a 14.9 point average, is the slickest ball handler in the League and one of the country's best collegiate foul shooters...

Author: By Richard Andrews, | Title: Slumping Crimson Basketball Team Meets Penn and Princeton in IAB This Weekend | 2/19/1965 | See Source »

...grew older, as dizziness, deafness and amnesia successively set in, Swift lapsed into "incessant strains of obscenity and swearing." A statute of lunacy was taken out against him, and he spent the last three years of his life sunk in bestial stupor. "I am what I am," he muttered not long before his death. "I am what I am." He was a Yahoo. Yet he was Lucifer too: the great sinner was also a bringer of light...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: A Conjur'd Spirit | 1/15/1965 | See Source »

...nimble seven-footers sprout out of the floor of the IAB over-night, the Crimson will have to make the best possible use of its greatest asset--good shooting--to beat Cornell. In nine games this season the starting five plus leading reserves John Scott and Bill Fegley have sunk an incredible 49 per cent of their shots...

Author: By Richard Andrews, | Title: Varsity Basketball Opens Ivy Season Against Scrappy Columbia, Tall Cornell | 1/8/1965 | See Source »

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