Word: sunk
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Lambert, manager of energy economics and forecasting for Shell: "Anyone who says he knows exactly what the reserves are or when we are going to run out of gas and oil is either naive or stupid." Areas that seem promising often turn out to be duds. U.S. companies have sunk well after well off the northwest coast of Florida in a spot where the geological characteristics seemed encouraging; they all have been dry. By contrast, oil turns up in places that looked hopeless. In the North Sea, Phillips Petroleum was ready to quit after four failed wells. The fifth, sunk...
Walker and Shaw combined to win an equally one-sided affair to put Harvard ahead, 6-2, before Gerken and Cliff Adler, who did not play a singles match, were sunk in two sets by the last Navy...
Kirkland then drove the lane, tieing the game and drawing a foul. Talk about PRESSURE, and storybook finishes. With college scouts and big press writeups hovering in the wings, Kirkland sunk the shot and Elk Grove High...
Callaghan's ploy nevertheless left Tory Leader Thatcher furious. "This is a defeat with dishonor!" she snapped at a press conference. "No government has ever sunk so low-refusing to put its policies to a vote in the House of Commons." Indeed, Thatcher added, "We have no government...
Oliver's Story begins in June 1969, 18 months after the death of Oliver's wife Jenny. Oliver Barrett IV has turned his back on his proper Boston family and an impressive textile fortune, and sunk himself into the defense of civil liberties, a basement apartment in Manhattan-and gloom. He goes to parties and he sits. When friends introduce him to pretty girls, he glowers and storms away. Finally, jogging in Central Park, he sees Miss Right II, a beautiful blonde named Marcie Nash, who captures his fancy by running faster than he does. They have dinner...