Word: sunk
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...context of Chem 20, a course Tsomides says Doering hates to teach. He admits that the course's reputation as one of the College's most competitive leads most people to dread it; only by taking the class as a freshman, before word of its reputation had really sunk in, did Tsomides emerge relatively unscathed...
...Buenos Aires varied greatly about the course of the spectacular war of attrition offshore. Britain reported the loss of a missile-bearing frigate, H.M.S. Antelope, destroyed when a bomb in its midsection exploded as efforts were being made to defuse it (see photograph at right); a destroyer, H.M.S. Coventry, sunk by bombing; and a supply vessel, the Atlantic Conveyor, disabled and abandoned. The Conveyor was hit by the same type of Exocet missile that sank the British destroyer H.M.S. Sheffield four weeks ago. Including another frigate, H.M.S. Ardent, sunk on May 22, Britain said it had lost five ships...
...British were braced for particularly heavy attacks against the fleet on May 25, to coincide with Argentina's National Day celebrations. Waves of Skyhawk bombers soon began screaming over Falkland Sound. The Coventry, helped by other vessels, shot down four of the attackers but was hit and sunk by later sorties. Then the 14,946-ton Atlantic Conveyor, a merchant ship hired for the task force, was attacked by two of Argentina's deadliest type of warplane: the French-built Super-Etendard fighters that carry the sea-skimming Exocet missile. The aircraft fired their weapons from a distance of about...
...said, "The Argies used to give sweets to the kids and ask them if there were British soldiers in the area." He also reports that the Argentine soldiers told the citizens that henceforth Port Stanley was to be called Porto Argentina, and the settlement of Darwin, Belgrano, after the sunk cruiser. That was about the extent of their impositions. Still, there was some passive resistance to the Argentines by the residents. No one would tell the invaders, for instance, how to turn on the water for the toilet in the new school hostel...
...message never sunk in for 17 seniors on the Harvard football team. When the going got tough--when The Crimson disclosed seniors had signed a letter criticizing the coaching reign of Joe Restic--these big, tough football players turned into towards...