Word: sunk
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Flashes of outright seriousness do surface from time to time, but they slip away too quickly to allow a firm grip--which is very likely all for the best. Dan Rice, from all accounts, was a sunbeam; by the play's end he is already half sunk in twilight, dimmed by the onslaught of "modern contrivances" and the newborn industrial mentality. Try to portray a sunbeam a hundred and twenty years later and you may get a gleam of warmth: some charming laughs, perhaps; and, in the end, a confused sense of pleasure and a done of genuine perplexity...
...jets from Washington National Airport that normally swoop around the presidential monuments like famished gulls are, for the moment, emblemized by the one that fell; so there is that detail. And there was the aesthetic clash as well-blue-and-green Air Florida, the name a flying garden, sunk down among gray chunks in a black river. All that was worth noticing, to be sure. Still, there was nothing very special in any of it, except death, which, while always special, does not necessarily bring millions to tears or to attention. Why, then, the shock here...
Doomsday again! But Dr. Strangelove has sunk to the bottom of some obscure think tank, and The China Syndrome has been diagnosed as a disease of the wrist afflicting Ping Pong addicts. From the grandly atomic, our fantasies of Armageddon have apparently deteriorated, in a few short years, to the meanly fiscal. Rollover asks us to contemplate what would happen to our money-market accounts if the Arabs were to withdraw their oil wealth from the Western banking system, convert it into a mountain of gold bars and then sit smirking atop it, watching the rest of the world lapse...
...troublesome side. Traffic is becoming a round-the-clock snarl, and 1,000 more cars and trucks drive onto the city's potholed roads every week. Houston has badly mismanaged its water supply. Flooding is routine. Parts of the city, built over increasingly depleted underground water, have sunk as much as a foot since 1973. Concedes James Ketelsen, chairman of Houston-based Tenneco Corp.: "Houston lacks the forward planning and leadership to keep up with services. It's obvious the city hasn't kept pace with growth." The city may have learned its lesson. Last week voters...
Even though the Crimson picked up their game and steadiness throughout the second half, "a couple of opportunities arose and we didn't take advantage of them," coach Carole Kleinfelder said. "I was really impressed with Andrea Mainelli's poise for a freshman." Kleinfelder added. Mainelli sunk four baskets on seven attempts...