Word: sunk
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...dispute left many wondering, and worrying, about what the U.S. response would be if one of the Kuwaiti ships it is protecting were attacked by Iran. "We've now put a symbol out there in the Persian Gulf," said Senator John Glenn. "If they're sunk, what are we prepared...
...four billion people are in poverty and 40,000 children die of starvation every day, our economic assistance has dropped by almost 50 percent in real dollars since 1960--and much of that is concentrated now on just two countries, Egypt and Israel. Among the industrialized nations, we have sunk to 17th in the proportion of our gross national product that we give to aid our poorer neighbors abroad. Some even have suggested that $200 million is to much to give to Aquino's Philippene government...
...could probably make do with some "psychiatric treatment." Even though the gift met the divinely ordained total that Roberts had announced, he continued his fast in the Prayer Tower and asked his flock for more cash. Roberts' performance caused Swaggart to lament, "The gospel of Jesus Christ has never sunk to such a level...
Harvard pulled to within one point at the 1:30 mark, 69-68, until John Bean sunk a turnaround jumper with less than a minute to play, forcing the Crimson to foul intentionally, which it did without success...
Many of these ideas have been floated before -- and sunk -- on Capitol Hill. So opposed has Congress been to the sale of regional power-marketing administrations that the lawmakers last year passed a bill forbidding the White House even to study the subject. Critics contend that the Government is not really bolstering its revenues through sales of assets, since the transactions result in the loss of future income like interest payments on loans. Says Rudolph Penner, head of the Congressional Budget Office: "It's a one-shot deal that doesn't mean a long-run cut in the deficit...