Word: sunk
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Cornelia Sharpe stashed her braces and auditioned for the first of her 200 TV commercials. Now 28 and a seasoned cinema bunkmate (appearing with Al Pacino in Serpico, with Michael Sarrazin in The Reincarnation of Peter Proud), the actress has sunk her straightened teeth into a new role. Cast as a neo-Mata Hari in The Next Man, Sharpe sets out to wipe out a Saudi Arabian Minister of State, played by Sean Cannery, 46. Would-be assassin, however, quickly turns amorist. "It's a love story dipped in oil," coos Cornelia, who hints that her days...
...South was the "Sahara of the Bozart"-mediocre, stupid, lethargic. So insisted Supercynic H.L. Mencken. Even Virginia, the "most civilized" state in the South, was an "intellectual Gobi or Lapland," where education "had sunk to the Baptist-seminary level; not a single contribution to human knowledge has come out of her colleges in 25 years...
...Michelin, the French tiremaker may eventually pump $1.5 billion into plants in South Carolina. The company has already sunk $300 million into three new factories. One that is being built in Spartanburg may well employ 1, 200 people...
Young's actions did little to boost police morale, which had sunk to a disastrously low level in the first place because of the mayor's earlier moves. Young won election in 1973 partly by campaigning against the alleged racist attitudes and "blackjack rule" of the cops. The force is also under a cloud because of a federal investigation of alleged payoffs from narcotics operators to some of its high-ranking officers. Some of the police still regard the mayor as a cop hater and Police Chief Philip Tannian as an inept lackey. But they have enforced...
...first course in Spanish territory was the Las Palmas G.C. in the Canary Islands formed in 1891, which is incidentally the home course of two-time Ivy League champion and Harvard's leading golfer, Alex Vik. It was another 13 years until golf sunk roots in the mainland with the establishment of the Madrid Polo Club. As late as 1959, though, Spain could boast of only fourteen clubs. By 1970, the number has sprouted...