Word: sunk
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...past decade, showing how to deduce the complex intentions of what was once thought the simple truth of a photographic instant, very little of the sort has been done for the older and far deeper art of drawing. For one thing, the prestige of real graphic discipline has inexorably sunk in the art schools. The idea that drawing is anything more than a preliminary step to painting-that a mark on paper could, in its own right, achieve a density, finish, intensity and even grandeur as full as one on canvas-has withered in the face of facile generalizations about...
...problem arises when the question comes up of what exactly this decentralized network--which professors and administrators describe as inevitable--will look like. A number of institutions--principally Brown, MIT, and Carnegie-Mellon--have already sunk millions into wiring their campuses. Harvard has preferred, however, to take a wait-and-see attitude, anxious about the logistical difficulties of the move and fearful of technological obsolence...
...long line of twin-engine C-47s began taking off at seven-second intervals from Welford shortly after 10 p.m., Eisenhower stood there watching, his hands sunk deep in his pockets. He went on watching until the last plane circled into the darkness overhead. A correspondent standing near him said the general's eyes were full of tears. That same afternoon, after he watched the first troop convoys preparing to depart, Eisenhower had scribbled a strange note for himself, a message that would be ready if everything ended in disaster: "Our landings ... have failed ... The troops, the Air and Navy...
...physical damage wrought so far by the mines that contra guerrillas took responsibility for sowing inside the harbors of Marxist Nicaragua would hardly be noticed in a declared war. The highest reported tally: six Nicaraguan vessels and six ships of five other nations damaged but none confirmed sunk; ten sailors seriously injured but no one killed...
...daylight attack San Juan del Norte had been hit by gunfire from the sea. At one point in the fighting, the contras said, they used mortars to drive away a Nicaraguan patrol boat accompanied by two fishing trawlers. The rebel commander said one of the boats had later been sunk and that "your countrymen did it." According to the A.R.D.E. officer, the feat was accomplished by a small boat launched from a ship offshore. Said the rebel officer: "We don't have the trained people to take care of anything on the sea. So it was understood that marine...