Word: sunk
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...mention it or conjecture about it; but Hollywood has strangely looked the other way. Now much-Oscared George Pal, the cinema's ace conjurer of cosmic cataclysm (War of the Worlds, When Worlds Collide), has re-created this crazy continent, given it a colossal blood bath and sunk it again. In the process he has admirably fulfilled his ambition to supply escapist entertainment "with an element of wonder, stressing man's suppressed desire to travel away from himself...
...part of the mercenaries sought to leave the country by-sea in a number of boats which were sunk by the revolutionary air forces...
...forewarned of the general area where the landing would take place ("Someone committed treason," charged a council member), Castro had 10,000 troops on hand to meet the men coming up the track bed. Heavy artillery pinned the invaders down. The invasion ship carrying all the broadcasting equipment was sunk, and with it another landing craft. The Castro command threw its Soviet-built T-34 tanks into the fight; a dozen jets, some of them MIGs flown by Czech pilots, shot down five of the invaders' twelve B-26 bombers. Other Castro aircraft swept over the exposed troops...
Although the University reportedly filled in these fields with compressible slag after a flood in 1956, the fill has sunk so far into the former tidal area that drainage pipes, 30 feet apart, are almost literally supporting the entire area. Instead of allowing rainwater to drain off, the silt serves as a reservoir where seagulls have been known to nest...
Crimson captain Pete Smith overcame Pekary in a beat two out-of-three victory, 6-4, 6-2, 6-3, while Gary Adolman sunk Midshipman Karabasz...