Word: sunken
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...aided by Chinese attacking the Japanese rear, threw back Japanese attacks on Hong Kong, as well as repulsing further Japanese attempts to advance in North Malaya. Further cheering news from this sector was that about 2,330 officers and men out of 2,500 had been saved from the sunken British warships Prince of Wales and Repulse...
...from hurrying and his mind was a wastebasket of torn-off thoughts. He couldn't even remember exactly what she looked like. He had danced with her when he crashed the Freshman get-together; taken her out for a cigarette; walked her home . . . and the conversation had never once sunken to the level of "What courses do you take?" That was all he remembered and that was enough...
...whose excavations in Cretan pasturelands uncovered the wholly forgotten Minoan civilization and pushed the frontiers of Aegean history back 2,000 years; in Oxford, England. At Knossos he unearthed the labyrinth made famous by Theseus, Ariadne and the Minotaur; reconstructed the Palace of Minos complete with murals, plumbing and sunken bathtubs; found evidence that the 2,000-year-old kingdom was overthrown suddenly by seaborne invaders who took the city by surprise and burned the palace...
...recreation building with courts, rinks and swimming pools, 5) a large hotel especially designed for conventions of out-of-town industrialists, 6) a fashion center for wholesaling, distribution and display of the garment industry, 7) many-storied underground garages, wide sidewalks, rooftop restaurants, glass-enclosed subway entrances and combination sunken-garden and retail shopping areas...
There is a storm within him, and at sea he is at his best. For his staff service in the Atlantic during World War I, he won the Navy Cross. For his brilliant salvage of the sunken submarine S-51 (lost with 33 lives) in 1925, he got the Distinguished Service Medal. When the S-4 was rammed and lost with 40 men in 1927, he was again called to salvage duty, had the rare Gold Star added to his D.S.M...