Word: sunk
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...lower lip had the same courageous thrust as in the wartime posters, but the sturdy, bulldog head was sunk deep into slumped shoulders, and the pale blue eyes were watery and weary when Sir Winston Churchill tottered slowly into the House of Commons as Big Ben struck 3 on his 87th birthday. "Hear, hear, hear," rolled out the traditional Commons welcome, until it beat like a native drum. Then came a few most unparliamentary hurrahs (with nary a reprimand from the bewigged Speaker), and the "right honorable member for Woodford" slumped into his lifetime front-bench seat. A government spokesman...
...fields south of Ltibeck, the double barbed wire resumes, and it is no slipshod affair. Cement pylons are sunk 5 ft. into the ground and stand slightly over 6 ft. above it. Each pylon is threaded with seven strands of wire. Along the border a tractor equipped with a posthole digger is busily planting holes every dozen feet. As I watched the work crews through my binoculars, I suddenly found myself staring down the barrel of an East German submachine gun across the barrier...
...From Göttingen to the Czech border, there are still many open patches where no fences are visible. But the woods have been cleared, and pylons are stockpiled, ready to be sunk. At the Czech border, the East Germans have run their fence to foil East Germans who might try to escape to the West through that corner of Czechoslovakia that borders on both East and West Germany...
...largest Soviet nuclear test was still drifting toward the U.S. last week when President Kennedy gave the go-ahead signal for Project Gnome, the Atomic Energy Commission's long-planned underground experiment in the peaceful applications of nuclear energy. Southeast of Carlsbad, N.Mex., a shaft has already been sunk 1,200 ft. in the ground to penetrate a thick formation of rock salt. From the shaft's bottom, a 1,116-ft. horizontal tunnel leads into the salt and curves back on itself in a giant hook. At the tip of the hook a small (5-kiloton) bomb...
Four years before Boswell got his book to the printer. Hawkins published an authoritative biography of Dr. Johnson. Johnson's friends and Hawkins' enemies briskly went to work, and six months after the book was issued in 1787. it was torpedoed and sunk. It went out of print, and stayed that way until Bertram H. Davis, who has written his own study of Hawkins' life, edited the present, heavily abridged version...