Word: sank
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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After Maine turned the ball over, Healey brought the ball back down to the Crimson perimeter and in a repeat performance, sank another three-pointer, putting Harvard back in the race and forcing Maine to call time out with 1:27 left on the clock...
Vogel was skeptical that a majority of East and West Germans would insist on reunification when the realities sank in: East Germans might reject the bitter side of capitalism, competition and unemployment. West Germans, already fearful of an immigrant invasion from the East, might well shrink from the cost and inconvenience of accommodating their poorer brethren...
...accomplices. There are the so-called Keating Five -- Senators Dennis DeConcini and John McCain of Arizona, John Glenn of Ohio, Donald Riegle of Michigan and Alan Cranston of California -- who received $1.3 million in contributions from Keating and went to bat for him against federal regulators. The five sank deeper into trouble last week when the Senate ethics committee appointed outside counsel to investigate. The FBI also expanded its Keating probe to include questions about the Senators' involvement...
Harvard will take on Ivy rival Princeton in the semifinals today at 1:30 p.m. In the other semifinal match, West Virginia will meet Dartmouth. West Virginia blanked Yale, 9-0, and Dartmouth sank Navy...
...44th voyage carrying passengers and gold from Panama to New York, the S.S. Central America ran into a killer hurricane and sank in 8,000 ft. of water 200 miles off the South Carolina coast. On board were an estimated 77,000 ounces of gold bullion worth at least $28 million today. Last week a salvage syndicate that located the wreck two years ago began recovering what engineer Thomas Thompson, 37, said was "like the classic sunken treasures you read about as a kid. It is like a garden of gold growing from the bottom and hanging from beams...