Word: sank
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Harvard supporters smiled winningly as sharp-shooting substitute forward Mike Janczewski sank both free throws for a 59-55 lead. John Ryzewic dropped a jumper and Joe Cook a free throw and then, as Harvard bumbled a series of sorties, Greg Pickering put in a shot over Hardy to shoot the Indians into a 60-59 lead with 1:52 on the clock. Gustavson missed a short shot, but Johnson came from nowhere to guide the rebound into the basket...
...problems began to surface early this fall, when black students sank into another round of frustrating negotiations with Robert R. Smith. Smith, who was then riding the hot seat as S.F. State's president, had the unenviable job of convincing the BSU that the college couldn't accept plans to admit all black applicants or immediately set up an Afro-American studies department...
...mysterious, deeply spiritual last quartets of Beethoven. The ensemble's recordings of that period captured their particularly expansive style, in which they seemed to move as much above the music as with it. Although they lost some of their ease and sparkle in later years, they never sank below a remarkably high level of interpretive excellence. Even on an off night, they played with exactitude of tempo and emotional involvement that few other ensembles could match-the reflection of so many years of living together and apart...
...first half and then Dover, drawing repeated ovations from the 2000 fans, scored seven straight points on three incredible drives to put Harvard in the lead at 30-29. Then, after senior Paul Waickowski had come off the bench in fine style to replace a foul-laden Kanuth, Hardy sank a turn-around at the buzzer for a 39-37 half-time cushion...
...discontents. On their TV screens, Americans had watched in horror as Martin Luther King lay dead on a Memphis balcony and as an assassin's bullet pierced Robert Kennedy's brain in Los Angeles. While U.S. prestige declined abroad, the nation's own self-confidence sank to a nadir at which it became a familiar litany that American society was afflicted with some profound malaise of spirit and will...