Word: sank
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...days when no scheme for saving the temple seemed satisfactory, when the ancient monument seemed doomed, tourists swarmed up the Nile. An air-conditioned hotel was built at Aswan to handle the traffic; an Aswan-Abu Simbel service went into operation with hydrofoil launches, one of which sank this spring, drowning two Frenchwomen. Business boomed-and now it may go on and on. When Lake Nasser has filled its tremendous basin, tourists will be able to float to the temple door, where the huge statues of Ramses II, their saw wounds healed and inconspicuous, will be waiting to greet...
...sooner had Teddy floated his notion at a Boston news conference than he was caught up in a battle almost as fierce as that in which the Constitution sank the British warship Guerriere in 1812. Protested Massachusetts' Republican Senator Leverett Saltonstall: "We are proud of Old Ironsides, and she belongs in Boston." Said Boston Mayor John Collins: "There are too many risks in moving the vessel to New York." Cried the Boston Record-American: "The Constitution is too sacred a relic of our heritage to make it a road show." Joining the protests were the Greater Boston Chamber...
Blossoming chestnuts cast their shade over the bookstalls along the Seine, traffic wheeled insanely around the Place de 1'Etoile and the first tourists with their cameras sank contentedly last week into chairs at sidewalk cafes...
...straight singles victories. On the 16th green, two up over England's Mike Lunt, New Jersey's Bob Gardner, 41, was surveying a tricky, 4-ft. putt when Captain Tufts whispered in his ear. "Bob," he said, "this is the one we need." Gardner calmly stepped up, sank the putt-and with it the British hope for a Walker Cup upset...
...tracks. They got the voting rights to Cohn's 55,000 Lionel shares in return for an interest-free loan to him of $281,275; Cohn is pledged to sell them the shares in 1964 and 1965, by which time he hopes that the stock-which sank from 14⅛ to 5⅛ in four years under his management-will be selling at a higher price. To top all this, the restless three last week were negotiating with Promoter Meshulam Riklis to take over his sprawling (assets: $66 million) but sorely troubled Rapid-American empire, which controls 1.500 Lerner...