Word: sunk
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
After the meeting, the U.S. line was that MLF had been "neither advanced nor retarded." That was nonsense. It had indeed been retarded and, to all intents and purposes, sunk in its original form. The fact became clear when Secretary of State Dean Rusk was still arguing the MLF case in Paris while in Washington President Johnson casually remarked that the U.S. was "not committed" and would consider "modifications." The Europeans regarded this as the year's most spectacular rug-pulling operation. But it was also a sound decision not to wreck the Western Alliance by trying to force...
When John Kennedy stood before the world in 1961 and proposed his Alianza para el Progreso, his dream was a partnership that would strengthen the economic and democratic institutions of Latin America. Since then, the U.S. has sunk $3.7 billion into Latin America. Yet it remains a continent of upheaval, swept by persistent revolution that betrays a discouraging inability to maintain a stable government. Last week's revolt in Bolivia marked the ninth time a military regime has taken power by force in the last four years...
...impact of Goldwaterism in this state was just about nil. With some other Republican, Johnson, while still winning by a big margin, would probably have run somewhat behind Kennedy and Bellotti would have sunk like a stone under a tidal wave of Volpe votes, since few Republicans would have had reason to split their tickets. There was no Ken Keating in Massachusetts. Even somebody as unknown and as vulnerable to a Democratic landslide as Elywnn Miller, the Republican aspirant for Auditor, held on to the usual number of GOP votes as he lost in the usual fashion. Lloyd Waring...
Slowly hope is lost; suddenly grace is given. In the bottom of a barrel sunk in the sand, he finds several inches of clear water. Water in this blazing waste! He is dumbstruck. By what miracle could a common tub draw water out of dust? Day and night he ponders the mystery and its meaning. In the desert he has found water-can it be that in his fate he has found his life? He looks up. The ladder has somehow been left in place. He is free to go, but now he has no desire to depart. Instead...
Kennedy rarely refers to his opponent except in discussing Keating's position on various pieces of legislation. He does not engage in the dirt throwing Keating has occasionally sunk to, and Kennedy replies to these charges only under the direct questioning of newsmen...