Word: sunkenness
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...East. The Prime Minister declared that the sunken warships Prince of Wales and Repulse had been sent to Singapore in the hope of deterring Japan from war. No aircraft carriers had been sent with them, for a very good reason: all but one British carrier had been undergoing repairs...
...Winsted, Conn., citizens started a fund to replace the sunken battleship Arizona...
...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...