Word: sunk
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Scores of companies now participate eagerly in OCDM seminars, have conducted employee courses in civil defense. Many of the nation's banks have buried their vital microfilmed records for safekeeping. Last month Manhattan's Rockefeller Center announced one of the biggest non-Government shelter projects, to be sunk beneath the ganglia of Radio City, with an eventual population capacity of 200,000. In Kansas City, the Brunson Instrument Co. recently moved its precision-instrument factory, underground, to a vibration-proof stone quarry. Contracts have been let for a big (cap. 600), elaborate fallout shelter underneath Minneapolis' Federal...
...Arrow Tattoo. The 32nd is a crack outfit. It earned its shoulder patch, a red arrow piercing a battle line, in the Meuse-Argonne during World War I. Its first casualties were suffered when the troopship Tuscania was sunk by a German submarine. In World War II the Red Arrow Division fought its way from Buna to Saidor to Hollandia to Aitape to Luzon in 654 combat days-more than any other army unit in the nation's history. Along the way its men won n Congressional Medals of Honor, 49 Legions of Merit, 153 Distinguished Service Crosses...
These delegates were wrong, of course. If Dag Hammarskjold had been no more than an efficient administrator, his organization--and theirs, and all the world's--might have quietly sunk into oblivion in the troubled waters of the world. That the United Nations still exists today, that after 15 years it offers achievement and potential far beyond that of any previous international organization, is due in no small part to the successes and ideals of an international public servant who lost his life in its service...
...with their bombs and machine guns had been expected to apply against Castro's tanks and artillery. Castro's forces came up fast. He still had four jets left, and they were armed with powerful rockets. He used them well. Before the morning was done he had sunk two transports and driven off two others...
...Niagara Falls once poured out of the wings. A full-sized train chugged uphill. One show used a helicopter, another a four-engine bomber, and a third shot Sputniks into the flies. Chariots have been drawn by live horses galloping on treadmills. Ships have been torpedoed and sunk, descending via the huge, tripartite stage elevator. The Christmas show always features a creche program, and at Eastertime the stage turns into a cathedral, and the girls of the corps de ballet turn into nuns, forming a vast human cross holding lilies in their hands...