Word: sunk
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Galleon sunk in 1641 is found...
...Huskies returned from the intermission ready to play, while visions of exams and unfinished papers haunted McLaughlin's troops. Northeastern won the tap and Herb Caesar quickly sunk a charity toss with only seven seconds gone in the new period, cutting the Harvard margin to four. A jumper by Caesar and another by teammate Bill Loughnane tied the game with 17:28 to play...
Both are referring, with unconcealed dread and awe, to the lawyer's equivalent of the Serbonian bog in Milton's Paradise Lost, "where armies whole have sunk." Most lawyers call it simply the "Big Case": the massive, sprawling suit that involves huge stakes, provides employment for legions of attorneys and drones on for years. The quintessential Big Case is U.S. vs. International Business Machines Corp., an antitrust suit by the Government charging the company with monopolizing the computer industry. Before the parties went to trial, they deluged each other with 30 million pages of documents. The actual trial...
...dismal 35 per cent field goal percentage in the first half sunk the Crimson beyond the point of return, and the capacity crowd was left wondering only if Penn could break the 100 barrier, which it did, with about a minute remaining...
...vicious circle in which inflation weakens the dollar and a drop in the dollar spurs more inflation. Treasury Under Secretary Anthony Solomon, with Blumenthal's support, argued against doing anything to prop the dollar until its rout had degenerated into a panic-by which time the greenback had sunk 18% against the German mark and 26% against both the yen and Swiss franc. Reports TIME Washington Economic Correspondent George Taber. "The U.S. this year paid a heavy price to learn something about world money markets. One of the tragedies is that there was nobody in the Treasury Department with...