Word: sunk
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Five months after Labor's third straight election defeat, the party, rather than resolving its differences, had sunk so low that some British editorialists were asking seriously last week whether there would ever be another Labor government at all. Cock-a-hoop over two fresh by-election victories, Prime Minister Harold Macmillan told a Tory rally that in view of "the folly, confusion and incompetence of our opponents," he might very well follow Sir Winston Churchill's example and resign his office after his 80th birthday-in 1974. To others, dedicated to the proposition that a lively Loyal...
...Blown up and sunk in Havana Harbor...
...even a proffered letter from the President of the U.S. on behalf of one applicant moved M.I.T.'s Director of Admissions B. Alden Thresher ("The thicker the folder, the thicker the student"). He insisted on a letter from a math teacher instead. And the point has sunk in. Says Amherst's Dean of Admission Eugene S. Wilson: "I haven't had any payola offered to me in years-not even a chocolate...
Conquest (CBS, 5-5:30 p.m.). Navy Commander George Bond emerges from a "sunk" submarine, and Air Force Captain Joseph Kittinger dives toward earth from an altitude of 76,000 ft., in a program that illustrates the increasing problems of escape (and how they are solved) as man goes ever higher into space and ever deeper into...
Thoreau had other troubles at home. With expenses running up, the committee was forced to ask the California legislature to add another $1,000,000 to the $8,000,000 the state had already sunk in Squaw Valley. Worst yet, only 135,000 tickets had been sold of a capacity total of 385,000. Innkeepers and landlords were cutting prices (e.g., February rental of a cabin with room for 14 was down from $4,000 to $1,900) as the storm clouds gathered over Squawk Valley...