Word: sunken
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Senate Appropriations Committee, had made this plea more than 20 times during the 40½-hour Reed v. Reed wrangle. He had spent half of one night on a Senate lounge when he should have been home in bed. His snow-white moustache drooped; his eyes were sunken, bleary; his voice quavered. Somebody said: "I object." His last plea was dashed to the floor like a broken relic. Like an angered god, he lifted his voice above the Senate din, pronounced a commandment: "Every Senator can't have his own damned...
...Lake George, N.Y., a speck that had crawled swiftly over the map from Long Island descended upon the lake ice, which crackled, boomed, broke through. Natives pushed out in a rowboat, rescued the half-sunken plane's three people, who registered at a hotel as A. L. & Mrs. Caperton, and Pilot J. P. Herman, of Garden City...
...eyes all that went on between them was pure, beautiful and charming. But it was quite different as soon as he thought of somebody else in his place. . . . Where had she learned such kisses?" The increasing sensuality of their relationship wore on the boy, mads him skinny, sunken-eyed. Katya grew plumper, gayer, flattered by his love and the adulation of others. So they decided to separate for a summer. Their parting was youthfully emotional, yet she took it easily, and he found himself almost happy to get away. All summer he mooned about her, seeing her in other girls...
...face, long, pointed, waxed mustaches, promenaded from his Lhasa villa to the Potala, most magnificent of palaces. This was the Grand Lama himself, famed politico-religious absolute primate of Buddha. Above him, to the topmost of its gold-vermilion finials, now caught by the last reflected glow of the sunken sun, soared 436 feet in air his ancient palace, crowning a green-clad mountain. The Grand Lama passed within...
TIME was so far from supposing that the bow of the S-51 came up "by the desire or intent of the salvage force" as to state ". . . (the) workers were astonished to see the nose of the sunken monster suddenly poke through the waves. . . ." The facts of this accident as reported by TIME do not differ materially from those cited by Captain King. None the less TIME did not explicitly state that the pumping of a small amount of air into the lifting pontoons on the day in question was but a preliminary action, not intended to produce the disastrous...