Word: sunk
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Right behind Fought-Davies, Sander was engaged in another potboiler with Brodie, to whom he had lost the day before. With the match all even, this time it was the Britisher who sunk the crucial birdie putt on 15 and Brodie secured his victory by rapping home an eagle putt on the next hole...
...Panama Run It? A final argument against the treaty is that efficient and responsible management of the canal may be sacrificed. Since the Big Ditch was opened for business in 1914, accidents have been rare, and no ships have sunk in the canal proper. On an average day, 34 vessels move uneventfully through the canal without mishap or even tension. The U.S. has also run the canal as a bargain for shippers: tolls have been raised only twice. The operation's 1976 deficit: $7.4 million, on tolls totaling $134.3 million...
Almost totally unnoticed amid the debate over Alaskan oil and the Administration's energy program has been some encouraging news. Spurred on by the prospect of higher prices, oilmen have sharply stepped up the pace of exploration in the Lower 48 states. New wells are being sunk at the highest rate in nearly two decades. More than 2,000 drilling rigs-meaning just about every one available-are now boring for gas and oil on shore, v. an average of only 975 six years...
...Davis Oil are some of the "hot" outfits-are unknown to the public. But last year Davis, for example, discovered more onshore gas and oil wells in the U.S. than Exxon. Lately the big firms have begun to drill more too. So far this year Shell has sunk 59 wells in the U.S., compared with only...
This collection of memories ranges over wartime Washington, the transformation of industries, the families stumbling around in blacked-out houses, the rapt attention paid to H.V. Kaltenborn, the vacations spent on beaches dark with oil from ships sunk off the New Jersey coast by German U-boats. Hoopes found hundreds of nostalgic oddments. One man remembers a lapel button: "It showed Uncle Sam, and when you pulled the string. Uncle Sam pulled Hitler up on a tree limb and hanged him. The slogan was LET'S ALL PULL TOGETHER." A woman asks, "Do you remember punching oleo...