Word: sank
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Puritans, who held a one-point advantage at halftime, waited until the last five minutes to break the deadlock. Jack Richards and Jim Powell then sank a total of six points to decide the match. Close guarding accounted for the low score...
Freshman hopes sank last week when first-string goalie Phil Clark landed in Stillman Infirmary with mononucleosis and high-scorer Jack Carmen moved up to the Varsity...
...much a root as a full-grown shoot. He had split away from Huey in 1931, calling his brother "a big-bellied coward." Earl was a gravel-voiced, bitin', scratchin' man. He once nearly bit an antagonist's finger off. On another occasion, he sank his teeth so deep in the neck of a state representative that the legislator took a shot of lockjaw serum...
...Stovepipe Wells in California's Death Valley, where many a forty-niner died of thirst before he could get to the gold fields, two resort operators sank a 200-ft. shaft, brought in a well producing 40 gallons of water a minute...
...Marry (by Elisabeth Cobb & Herschel Williams; produced by Edgar F. Luckenbach) was quite understandably the work of two people: no one person would be capable of anything so bad. Its brightest witticisms heavier than a bride's first biscuits, it sank out of sight after three performances...