Word: sunk
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Subsequently, hopes have sunk even lower with the recent announcement by the Administrative Board that star halfback Hobie Armstrong was declared ineligible for academic reasons...
...Casa Ricordi in Milan is the world's most fabled storehouse of Italian opera. In 17 zinc cases sunk 45 ft. below the ground, the firm has stored away original operatic manuscripts by most of the great Italian composers, including Donizetti, Bellini, Verdi and Puccini. One discordant note in this musical melange: the firm is under heavy criticism for permitting errors by the thousands to creep into its printed scores-and for refusing to let outsiders compare them with the originals. Last week the criticism grew so loud and bitter that the Italian Senate considered new copyright rules that...
Misplaced Pacific. To geophysicists, the Puerto Rico Trench is one of the most interesting places on earth. Lying north of Puerto Rico, it is something like the Grand Canyon sunk under three to four miles of water. Like other deep ocean trenches, it is believed to be a place where the earth's crust is sinking into the interior, perhaps carried down by slow, enormous currents in the plastic mantle. Since trenches are characteristic of the Pacific Ocean, where they abound, some geophysicists consider the Puerto Rico Trench a part of the Pacific that has bulged into the Atlantic...
...random question-and-answer session, Goodman had good words for: work-study programs, such as those engineered at such schools as Bennington and Antioch; progressive education ("We were sunk in the '20's. Everybody got chicken."); the Protestant Ethic ("but with a greater respect for the health of the body"): greater sexual freedom; the Middle Ages ("Why, you know, they had 162 holidays a year then. They know how to live. We don't know anything about the Middle Ages. Those serfs never worked."); freedom of teachers to establish their own curriculum free of administration supervision; moving classrooms into...
Premier Amini also raised his voice loud enough to be heard in Washington. The sum of $40 million was needed instantly to stave off bankruptcy and collapse. In the past ten years, the U.S. has sunk more than a billion dollars into Iran in economic and military aid, but Washington will undoubtedly dig deep enough once more at least to keep Amini afloat...