Word: sank
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Died. Admiral of the Fleet Sir Rhoderick Robert McGrigor, 66, tiny (5 ft. 4 in.) fighting admiral who captained the battle cruiser Renown that stalked and sank Germany's Bismarck in World War II, commanded the first Allied landings in the toe of Italy and was blown from his ship during the assault, was appointed First Sea Lord and Chief of Naval Staff (1951-55); in Aberdeen, Scotland...
During the Luzon operations, almost 2,000 U.S. and Australian Navymen were killed by the kamikaze pilots. During the Philippines campaign, one in four kamikazes damaged a target; one in 33 sank a ship...
...Jenufa proved to be as haunting a work as Alban Berg's Wozzek (TIME, March 16). From its ominous opening xylophone solo to the final burst of harp-punctuated melody, the village tragedy unfolded without the benefit of set pieces, ensembles or arias. Heavily percussioned, the orchestra sometimes sank to a rich, nervous whisper flickering through the strings, sometimes burst forth in anguished, brassy cries. Throughout, Janacek's use of exotic folk idiom wrapped the opera in an eerie, Kafka-like haze that did much to add depth and mysterious dimension to the melodramatic plot...
Russell was shooting at his best (7 for 19 from the floor, 8 for 8 from the foul line), and he out-rebounded Chamberlain 35 to 28. Chamberlain was tense and annoyed with himself for shooting poorly. He took 38 shots from the floor, sank only 12, and missed often from the foul line (6 for 12). But Russell, rated the game's greatest defensive player, could not keep Rookie Chamberlain from ending the evening as the game's high scorer with 30 points...
Even though his cold hung on, the President got out on the Augusta course for a few more rounds of golf before returning to Washington. He showed that neither cold nor rain nor flu nor bronchitis could stay his hand, sank a 20-ft. putt with the custom putter (a duplicate of Bobby Jones's celebrated "Calamity Jane") that White House correspondents had given him early last month. Buoyed by that shot and, at long last, by the appearance of the sun, Ike finished his vacation in high spirits, and at weeks end flew home...