Word: sunk
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...back to County Cork for his sweetheart, Kitty O'Neill. Kitty, second cousin of Playwright Eugene O'Neill, is better known to readers of The Snake Has All the Lines as "My Wild Irish Mother," a woman with an unquenchable sense of humor. "After all the money I've sunk in bronchitis," she said recently, "if I die of anything else, I'll shoot myself." For years she called her daughter "Biddy Jean," until a nun at Scranton's Marywood Seminary put a stop to it on the ground that the term biddy was an insult to Irish womanhood...
...difficult to govern." He grew increasingly impervious to Western influence, despite his summer visits to the royal villa at Saint-Jean-Cap-Ferrat on the French Riviera. By the time he took the throne in 1959, after the old King died at 74, Savang Vatthana seemed to have sunk into a torpor that could not be shaken by the fast-paced world around him. One Western diplomat, after a session with the King, said it was "like listening to a long Oriental movie dubbed in French." He is a fan of Margot Fonteyn and Italian opera, and at one recent...
...camp on Ellesmere Island, more than 1,000 miles north of the Arctic Circle. A tall, spade-bearded Yankee from Newburyport, Mass., Greely was not alarmed when the first supply ship failed to reach them. But in the second summer, a supply ship failed again: it was trapped and sunk in the grinding ice floes above Baffin...
...admit that these and other arms control measures can exist, when proposed in a context of increased deterrence, decreased Kahn's callousness; it detracts from the that he has sunk to the depths of human pravity, that by such detailed description thermonuclear war he makes it more like Kahn's position is simply that no what we and the Russians do, war come. Therefore we should think about beforehand if we expect to salvage more despair; for, as he argues, we might...
...Navy went down like a bucket Saturday night, as varsity swimmers toppled records and came up with surprises to sink 56 to 39 the team that had sunk Yale...