Word: sank
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Producer Ely Landau, and he wanted her to star in Eugene O'Neill's Long Day's Journey into Night. Demanded Hepburn: "Who's doing the script?" Replied Landau: "O'Neill." There was a long pause as the full significance of the answer sank in. Then Kate cried: "Marvelous!" and agreed to sign...
Died. Admiral Arseni Grigorevich Golovko, 55, No. 2 man of the Soviet navy, an ebullient submarine buff whose northern fleet sank 700,000 tons of Nazi shipping in 15 months in the early stages of World War II, last year bragged that the Reds have more missile-armed atomic subs than the U.S.; after a long illness; in Moscow...
...boat had won by a wide margin in a shortened course. The varsity and Coach Fred Cabot's freshmen were actually the only crews of the afternoon to row their scheduled distances, the Henley mile and five-sixteenths. It was in the freshmen race that the MIT boat sank after two minutes, and Cabot was so busy rescuing the survivors he never saw his crew...
Then, in 1951 the voters tossed the G.O.P. rascals out. elected as mayor Democrat Joseph S. Clark (now a U.S. Senator), who was succeeded by Democrat Richardson Dilworth. now a candidate for Governor of Pennsylvania. Out of power, the regular Republican organization sank into decrepitude-and its showing in the 1960 presidential election was dramatic evidence of its abysmal state...
Four Chinese boys and two girls had daringly escaped from the mainland in a sampan so leaky that it sank. Rescued by a passing junk, the six youngsters were vouched for by a Hong Kong relative who would guarantee their support. But the police arrested the six for illegal entry, brusquely pushed them back across the border. The Hong Kong Tiger Standard blasted the government for an "appallingly inhumane blunder." The president of Formosa's Free China Relief Association called the action "tantamount to sentencing the youths to death.'' Over the Fence. It was not simply...