Word: sunk
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...tradition that a woman at sea is bad luck has long since sunk without a trace. Every boat seemed designed to appeal to the feminine eye for color and convenience, even in the sailboats, the last stronghold of the hornyhanded old salt. Most fetching was a 35-ft. sloop-rigged motor sailer made by that master of motorboats, Chris-Craft. With 563 sq. ft. of sail on a beamy (11 ft.) Fiberglas hull, Chris-Craft's "sail yacht" is powered by a hefty 60-h.p. engine that gives it a cruising speed of six or seven knots. In cabins...
...corporate profits and inspired millions of Americans to invest in stocks as a hedge against rising prices and a bet on future boom. The angry debate over steel brought home to the public the fact that inflation had been all but stopped for two years. When this realization sunk in. what had begun as an orderly decline in an overpriced stock market abruptly turned into a rout...
...Belt site is just one of many Minuteman installations either built or abuilding. Officially declared operational for the first time this week, 20 of the three-stage, 32-ton Minutemen are now cradled in 80-ft. silos sunk in Montana's wheat and cattle country. They are armed with nuclear warheads, aimed and ready to hurl the equivalent of 500,000 tons...
...candidate in Tim Caliard. Caliard is highly mobile for an interior lineman, and pulls out exceptionally well to lead the blocking for Riley and company. The Tigers were strengthened last week by the return of their top flight end, Barry Schumann, who caught the pass two years ago that sunk the Crimson in their last Palmer Stadium visit...
...Sunk in disorder and poverty, many of the newly independent nations of black Africa not long ago seemed ripe ground for Communism. None seemed riper than Guinea, where President Sékou Touré preached a dogmatic Marxist philosophy and a virulent hatred of the West. But in Africa, a local saying holds, "There is no past or future, only the present," and Guinea is a perfect case in point. After years of cozying up to Moscow, Touré has turned against the Reds, and their high hopes of gaining an African foothold in Guinea have all but evaporated...