Word: sunk
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...scrambling. Because the golf course usually reserved for parking at the Rose Bowl was too soggy to use, for instance, they had to convert streets surrounding the stadium into makeshift parking lots. Otherwise, 10,000 or so cars that would normally be parked there might have sunk up to their hubcaps on the fairways...
Tammaro denied recent reports that authorities doubted their informant's statement that Paradiso had sunk Webster's body in both proposals would have required new housing construction, with a certain number of units reserved for low and moderate-income residents...
...Nitze and the U.S. team settled in at the negotiating table. Whatever its merits as a "going-in position," the zero option was clearly going nowhere in Geneva. It was simply nonnegotiable. The SS-20, after all, is the pride of the Soviet Strategic Rocket Forces. The Kremlin has sunk billions of rubles into developing it, training its crews and getting it in place. There was no way that Moscow would agree to dismantle every one of these missiles in exchange for "paper" reductions of missiles that the U.S. had not deployed and might not be able to deploy, given...
...Harvard season record-holder in shooting percentage, Trout sunk 11 of his 13 attempts from the field last night en route to his 29 points, the most this year for a Crimson-cagier...
...Soviets and their satellites have sunk deeper into the quagmire, they have become tempting targets for commercial and financial sanctions, even though such measures have been ineffective in the past. After the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan in late 1979, President Carter declared a partial embargo on grain exports and shipments of many types of technology to Moscow. Sixteen months later, Reagan lifted the grain embargo, saying that it was hurting American farmers more than the Soviet Union. In response to last December's martial-law crackdown in Poland, Reagan strengthened the ban against technology exports to the Soviets...