Word: sunk
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...practice, both sides have respected a 60-mile limit halfway between their respective coasts. The Dutch claimed that the Indonesian ship was sunk twelve miles from the New Guinea coast...
...climb was costly. The Chandlers had sunk some $20 million in what, for all its circulation growth, was still a losing proposition. Advertising income remained low, and after touching its 1958 circulation high water mark, the Mirror began to sink. Beginning in 1957, the Chandlers brought in a new editorial team, whose chief instructions were to cut costs on the Mirror and conduct a holding operation. The new management was not successful: of late, the Mirror has been losing money at the rate of $2,000,000 a year...
...foremost playground and financial center in the Eastern Mediterranean, Beirut is choked with well-heeled pashas, politicians and oil sheiks from Iraq, Egypt, Jordan, Saudi Arabia and Kuwait-most of them distrustful of cash and preferring concrete investment. In recent years the Arab millionaires have sunk $83 million into Beirut apartment houses. The Kuwaiti sheik who tools past his ten-story property in an air-conditioned Lincoln is delighted that he has converted his money into something solid-even though it may be half empty. "Why should I lower my rents and let the poor people in?" asked one pasha...
...Pacific fleet, the enemy found Douglas MacArthur's Far East air force neatly arrayed for extermination on Clark Field in the Philippines. The only remaining major deterrent to Japanese conquest of Southeast Asia consisted of the British battleship Prince of Wales and battle cruiser Repulse-and they were sunk three days later. Though Corregidor held out for five months, General Jonathan Wainwright's surrender-"with broken heart and head bowed in sadness but not in shame"-was the greatest capitulation in the history of U.S. arms...
...panic under sustained air attack. The result was the Japanese decision to invade Midway and the Aleutians, the likeliest U.S. bomber bases. Dangerously overextended, they blundered into the Battle of the Coral Sea, in which a U.S. task force sank a Japanese carrier, first major ship to be sunk by the Allies...