Word: sunk
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Crimson's season opens September 13 when the squad takes on Iona. The biggest challenge, however, will be provided by arch-rival Brown, which sunk Harvard last season to maintain its 10-year unbeaten string against the Crimson...
...cause of the uproar was the scandal that has been steadily increasing since the Rainbow Warrior, the flagship of Greenpeace, the 1.5 million-member environmental protest group, was bombed and sunk on July 10 in the harbor of Auckland, New Zealand, killing a Greenpeace photographer. The ship, which was sunk by two bombs attached to its hull, was about to lead a protest against French nuclear tests at Mururoa Atoll, 700 miles southeast of Tahiti. The evidence, trumpeted across the country last week by a French press in full cry, strongly suggests that France's secret service, the Direction Generale...
...from Mexico, chasing their American dream through a hole in the border fence near Tijuana on a moonless autumn night almost ten years ago. In contrast to the popular image of transient workers cowering in fear of deportation, they are among a burgeoning number of illegal families who have sunk deep roots in hospitable American soil. They are granted nudge-and-a-wink acceptance by employers as well as government agencies...
...Francis Pym, 63, as its leader. In calling for measures to ease unemployment and bolster industry through greater investment by the government in the public sector, Pym declared, "This Conservative government has been giving round after round of ammunition to its political opponents. It stands in danger of being sunk by its own shells." Though Pym praised the Prime Minister for her "courage and determination" and insisted that the new caucus would not be disloyal to the party and its leadership, his sharp criticism was hardly the view of a Thatcher partisan...
...aboard were presumed to have drowned. In Jordan, Khalil Wazir, also known as Abu Jihad, the deputy commander of Fatah, the largest P.L.O. guerrilla group, claimed that the commandos were killed in onshore battles with Israeli forces. He said the ship was heading out to sea when it was sunk...