Word: sunk
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...different sort of explosion shook the American press when it was revealed that the Central Intelligence Agency had salvaged part of a Soviet submarine sunk three miles deep in the mid-Pacific...
...American legal system sunk so low that the justice now meted out is even worse than that in the Salem witchcraft trials...
...cagers scrambled the Emmanuel defense as 'Cliffe players found the hoop from different spots on the floor, leading to a balanced scoring attack, Wood and Denise Thal each sunk 14 points. Lisa Muscatine put in ten and Captain Jeannie Guyton hit for nine...
...much longer and more complex pastiche. Shanghaied aboard a whaling ship, young Jonathan Upchurch is forced to play Ishmael to a crazed Ahab of a captain. The ship's quest is not for a white whale but, as Upchurch slowly learns, for the mysterious duplicate of itself, reported sunk on its last voyage. Is he surrounded, then, by ghosts? Or is the captain out to smash determinism by carrying his ship safely past a meeting with its foreshadowed self? As adventures and mysteries multiply, a third possibility begins to appear: a hoax, launched by a vaudeville magician, swelling...
Woodward appears equally insouciant about wealth. He bought a house near Georgetown for a price in six figures and picked up a new BMW Bavaria to replace the aging VW Karmann-Ghia in which the two did their nocturnal Watergate investigating. The two reporters share a financial adviser, have sunk large sums into tax-exempt municipal bonds, and are worried about their tax bill. They have each earned about $1 million in the past year...