Word: sunk
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...flailed away at Duryea--a millionaire lobsterman from conservative Eastern Long Island--for alleged sleight-of-hand in putting much of his fortune in his wife's name shortly before filing a campaign financial statement. The level of discourse, as shown in one of the candidates' recent debates, has sunk to about the third-grade range...
After six weeks of Ivy League football, two teams--Brown and Dartmouth--have surfaced as serious contenders for the Ivy crown. Meanwhile, the rest of the league has sunk under wild upsets, inconsistent play, and four totally unsatisfying tie games...
...optimists would reply that the returns on that are scarcely all in yet. All but 800,000 of the 3.2 million wells drilled to date have been sunk in just one country: the U.S. As recently as 1976, nearly 90% of all drilling activity was still concentrated in the U.S. and Canada, even though these nations account for only 14% of the world's estimated reserves. While the debate between the oil optimists and pessimists remains unresolved, it is clear that there is much more room for new exploration...
Fortunately she was pacified by the time our waitress returned with the order. Thirty-eight going on 53, our waitress was anorexic and her green eyeshadow drew attention to the hollows that sunk deeper in her gaunt face as the night wore on. Her short thin hair clung to her temples, never ruffling as she shuffled between our table and the gaggle of gossiping waitresses in the corner. Over the noise of the restaurant we heard them say things like, "Frank is still going out with Jill, and Beverly just won't see either of them" as they leisurely took...
...Vegas now runs to about 5,000 a month. In New York City, arriving Europeans want to see Times Square and Harlem and then fly south to Disney World. All this activity represents not just world prosperity but also the swooning collapse of the once almighty dollar, which has sunk 7% against the yen and 10.5% against the Swiss franc since July. Against gold, which is being feverishly traded in major markets, the dollar has slumped about 12% in the same period. The result has been to make the U.S. a bargain hunter's paradise for even middle-class foreigners...