Word: sunken
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...York managers sat up and took notice. Two months ago, when he knocked out Tippy Larkin in one round at Madison Square Garden for his tenth successive victory, knowing New York fight fans became aware of the latest pugilistic freak: a hollow-cheeked, sunken-eyed 132-pounder, with the legs of a flyweight, the shoulders of a lightweight, the forearms of a middleweight. Somewhere in those forearms there was an arsenal of TNT. Seven of his opponents in a row had fallen like tenpins...
...loss of perhaps 1,500 troops was not a disaster-not if the French estimate of 14,000 Nazis lost on sunken transports was anywhere near true. The bomb damage done to Allied warships off Norway, where so many were exposed, may have enhanced Allied respect for Nazi air power, but did not wreck the Allies' naval balance sheet. After what they did to the German Navy, they still have a wide edge in sea power. Their air power is improving. Unless Mussolini should find in Hitler's "battleship bombed" story (see below) the inspiration to make Italy...
...must have known that she was the armed tender for the late raider Admiral Graf Spee, a ship sought .furiously by the British Navy because she was reported to ' carry, in verminous prison quarters below decks, between 300 and 400 British seamen taken from the Spee'?, seven sunken victims (TIME...
...winds from the steppes blew across the Balkans, sending the temperature to -30°. In The Netherlands the earth was hard as brick; canals and flooded lands, which Holland counts on to defend her, were sheets of ice. On Belgium's eastern plateau, where the twelve modern sunken fortresses of Liege guard the route the Germans once took, caked snow crunched under the boots of marching troops. Ice crept out from the shores of the Baltic and the Gulf of Bothnia, where Russian planes bombed Sweden's Kallaks Island (see p. 30). And with the cold came fear...
...Crew members of the sunken Norwegian steamer Lappen testified in Marine Court at Bergen last week that no mine or torpedo sent their ship down, but an explosion set by one of her officers to collect insurance for the owners. None of Lappen's crew was hurt...