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Word: sunk (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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LITTLE warning flags are going up all over. Semaphoric signals of distress. In America the warning signs are being manufactured daily; artifacts which if interpreted correctly tell the whole story: The ship is going down. Not torpedoed, but sunk on purpose by the crazy crew...

Author: By Jay Cantor, | Title: Taming Tomatoes | 3/13/1968 | See Source »

...tape-recorder. A conversation is heard. The flower child finds a blackjacket friend reading Bronze Beauties Revue on the front seat of a broken-down auto. They talk in silence. Close the scene with a shot of the flower child sikpping stones. Near him a broken-down van sunk in backwater...

Author: By John D. Reed, | Title: Desire Is the Fire | 3/8/1968 | See Source »

...fragments and debris, including four parachutes that had been stored in the weapons' tail assemblies, strong indications that all four H-bombs were smashed to bits in the skidding crash and explosion. But some of the nuclear machinery may have melted into the 8-ft.-thick ice or sunk below into 800 ft. of water, which will pose problems in the expected later effort to collect as much wreckage as possible for burial. Unless the small amount of radiation is ruled harmless, the recovery team may face the long task of breaking up and disposing of hundreds of square...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Greenland: Frigid Fail-Safe | 2/2/1968 | See Source »

...down an offer to become police chief of Boston. "I didn't want to get involved," he declares, CBS news announces that Boston is missing. The White House says that Southeast Asia will be the 50th, not the 51st state, since Louisiana is being toweed out to sea and sunk. Local commentors blame Garrison's "sewer-side tendencies...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Tea Leaves and taurus | 1/4/1968 | See Source »

...troops. Port Harcourt has the only major airport left to Ojukwu, who depends upon air shipments for arms and other vital supplies. Its loss would leave Ojukwu's men tightly sealed in their Ibo heartland. To prevent a federal force from coming up the channel, the Biafrans have sunk a barge, cars, trucks and even a bus in it. But last week the federal army was preparing to navigate a vast network of secondary channels and creeks to reach Port Harcourt...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nigeria: The Little Country That Won't Give Up | 12/8/1967 | See Source »

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