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Word: sunk (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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Harvard did manage an exciting comeback in the last period. Trailing by 13 with seven minutes to play, the Crimson fought back to within one before Springfield sunk both free throws on a one-and-one situation to put the game on ice. Harvard's Scoring: Dover 38 Johnson 7 Kanuth 16 Gallagher 2 Hardy 5 Gustafson 4 Janszewski 6 Yates 0 Waickowski...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Skaters Win Again, But Hoopsters Falter | 12/9/1968 | See Source »

...Sangre de Cristo Mountains, where at Easter fanatical Pen-itentes used to re-enact the Crucifixion by nailing a member of their sect to the cross. For the Spaniards who once were Rio Arriba's lords, life has become as harsh as the land, and they have sunk to an existence as pitiable as that of the Indians they dispossessed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: New Mexico: The Agony of 7/erra Amarilla | 11/29/1968 | See Source »

...Being the captain is a very weighty responsibility, especially when I have to take the place of Vic Gatto," Cramer said. "It hasn't really sunk in yet." Cramer predicted that next year's team should be very good, especially on offense, but that most of the opposition will probably improve...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Cramer Is Chosen Football Captain | 11/26/1968 | See Source »

...companies plan to lay out another 850 miles next year, despite some gathering economic clouds. It takes about three years before a pipeline even begins paying its way, and it will be a long time before the gas companies can retrieve their share of the total $8 billion sunk off Louisiana so far. Even now, other underwater strikes are turning up, notably off Texas...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Natural Resources: Roughneck Regatta | 11/8/1968 | See Source »

...serve as a haven for an estimated 800 V.C. troops. Because the narrow Long Tau could easily be blocked, the Viet Cong have been trying hard since the beginning of the American buildup in 1965 to do precisely that. "If a ship the size of the Kalydon could be sunk in the middle of the river at that point," said a U.S. naval officer at Nha Be, "we'd be up to our neck. Estimates are that it would take anywhere from two to six months to reopen the channel. The U.S. command simply cannot afford to have that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The War: Guarding the Gauntlet | 10/18/1968 | See Source »

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