Word: sunk
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Battle of Jutland, the young lord soon married a beautiful heiress named Edwina Ashley. By World War II he was a captain in command of a destroyer flotilla; the fearless skipper's own ship, H.M.S. Kelly, was mined off Newcastle, torpedoed off the German coast and finally sunk by German dive bombers off Crete. "Abandon ship or I'm going to sink you!" his admiral signaled when he refused to leave his bridge at one time. "Try it and I'll bloody well sink you!" Mountbatten replied. Mountbatten's later direction of the disastrous commando raid...
...been living in Britain: Frank H. Ferris, 61, Robert H. Robie, 63, and David Dicks, 31. Former British Prime Minister Edward Heath managed to sail into Plymouth unaided, although bruised and exhausted. Said he: "It was the worst experience I have ever had." Twenty-three yachts were sunk or abandoned and uncounted others crippled; preliminary estimates put the damage at $4.5 million or more...
...member group of experts from eight federal agencies, including the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and the Environmental Protection Agency, was the oil's elusive quality. In contrast to other major spills, which usually move on the surface of the water, much of this oil has weathered, sunk and is moving along as deep as 40 ft. below the surface. The sausage-shaped rubberized barriers that were towed into place by the Coast Guard to protect the beaches extend only less than 3 ft. below the surface. Said John Robinson of the NOAA: "We have never seen anything like...
Jimmy Carter lost every state west of the Rockies in the 1976 presidential election and his popularity has sunk since ten. He is perceived as an absentee President, a man who rarely comes West and even more rarely concerns himself with the problems of this region...
Unlike their metropolitan cousins, though, few of these mayors are career politicians. Ted Crozier, a bald, burly ex-Army colonel, retired to his wife's home town of Clarksville, Tenn., and found public affairs more interesting than the restaurant into which he had sunk some of his service savings. Gesturing with his cigarette holder, he says: "I'm trying to prove you can turn things around." Charlotte Baldwin, the slim, red-haired wife of a dentist from Madisonville...