Word: sunk
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...ship sunk early on the morning of April 15, 1912, hours after hitting an iceberg while on its maiden voyage from England. Of those aboard, 1,513 passengers and crew were killed. The 704 survivors were mainly women and children who had been put aboard lifeboats...
Although never formulated explicitly in The Good Mother, this question haunts Narrator Anna Dunlap's recounting of her peculiar ordeal. Admitting that their marriage has sunk into irremediable tedium, she and her husband Brian, a lawyer in Boston, agree to an amicable divorce. Anna gets custody of Molly, 3, and child support from Brian, whose firm is transferring him to Washington. Settling with her daughter into a Cambridge apartment, Anna hopes to support herself by giving piano lessons and taking a part-time job running rats through mazes at a local university...
...Walt, who had sunk his fortune into this $17 million mousehole, was not done wheeling and dreaming. Disney's name, the most trusted in the movie business, reassured visitors. By Labor Day the park had already greeted its millionth paying guest, and after a year the attendance was 3.8 million. Last August, Disneyland recorded its 250 millionth admission. "We were the first theme park," says Frank Wells, Disney's president and chief operating officer. "With the vision of Walt Disney, we brought the standards of the park, our courtesy and cleanliness, to new levels, and we built...
...debate over divestiture that has been conducted so vociferously on this campus would maintain a semblance of rationality and intelligence. With construction projects similar to SASC's, such traits vanished at schools as diverse as Dartmouth, Brandeis, and the University of Vermont. Unfortunately, Harvard's divestiture debate has now sunk to the level of the empty symbolism and unproductive confrontation displayed at these other colleges. SASC has managed single-handedly to redefine the limits of debate, and it has chosen to erect shanties and a tower that will certainly become the focus of stepped up (and less constructive) debate...
Reagan announced the end of the exercises on Thursday when he stepped from Air Force One in New Orleans for a political speech. In all, the U.S. had sunk at least two vessels and temporarily shut down a missile base. The Libyans had not touched the U.S. fleet. The number of Libyan casualties was not known. Weinberger summed things up: "It was in every way a successful operation...