Word: sank
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...World War II, the U.S.S. Enterprise was an aircraft carrier. She sank 71 enemy ships and downed 911 planes. Severely damaged by kamikaze attack at the end of the war, she would later be sold for scrap...
...more he risks seeming distracted. "His strength is that people think he's fighting for them," says a Democratic pollster. "If they ever think it's about him, he's dead." That day hasn't come yet: no one's polled his popularity publicly since October when it sank to the low 40s from a phenomenal perch near 70. But Minnesota pols think he's coming back, and his newfound reticence may have something to do with it. "I'm still myself...but I find myself not giving opinions on things that have nothing to do with government," he says...
...rarely know when the announcements will be made--these are closely guarded knightings--and the move, while swift on the upside, can be just as death-defying the day after admission. Yahoo, which traded millions upon millions of shares at $348 at the moment of admission at 4:01, sank rapidly to $311 the next day before stabilizing and ending the week...
...been getting plenty since Thanksgiving morning, when fishermen found him lashed to an inner tube off the coast of Fort Lauderdale, Fla. The boy and his mother Elizabet had fled their Cuban town of Cardenas three days before, along with 12 companions, in a small aluminum motorboat, which sank in heavy seas, drowning Elizabet and 10 of the others. After drifting for two days, Elian was rescued in good condition and is being cared for by relatives in Miami. But he cries out at night, fearing that he's being abandoned each time the cousin whose bedroom he shares gets...
Japan and China? Between Tsushima, where the Japanese sank the Russian fleet, and Pearl Harbor, where they wiped out America's, the sons of Nippon did not even know from coffee; all they had was green tea. Ditto the Chinese when they chased American soldiers down the Korean Peninsula. Ditto the British, who for 400 years ruled the seas while swilling Java that was as tasty as their food. Tiny Israel has bested the Arabs in five wars. And why? Because Israeli "coffee" could eat through the armor of a Soviet-built T-72 in three minutes...