Word: sank
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Saltonstall, daughter-in-law of Massachusetts' Republican Senator Leverett Saltonstall, noted that Nonswimmer Caroline had splashed her way out to the 4½ ft. mark, where the water was over her head. "Is she all right?" asked another watchful mother-just as the board slipped away and Caroline sank. Mrs. Saltonstal's answer was action: although fully dressed (and seven months pregnant), she jumped into the water, dragged Caroline to safety...
...line sank deeper into debt, maintenance and repairs were neglected...
...Lawrence Seaway is an engineering masterpiece designed to produce economic miracles. It hasn't quite. In the confident hope that a deepwater channel would churn up an international trading boom in the North American heartland, Canada and the U.S. sank $442 million into the Seaway. Last week, as the Great Lakes shipping season approached its crest (unaffected by the coastal shipping strike), the two-year-old Seaway had lost some of its glamour. Says Milwaukee Port Director Harry C. Brockel: "It hasn't been as spectacular as expected. But then, a lot of people were looking for wonders...
...Tina (God's Little Acre) Louise donned a blue bikini and tucked an orchid in her bosom to receive her reward: a dunk in a bathtub full of Arpege at a Manhattan showroom. Tina sloshed hundreds of dollars of Lanvin's best over the side when she sank in, then slithered out. cooing "Now you can say, 'Promise him anything, but give him Louise...
...Stones, who go in for big disasters (they bought and sank the old Ile de France to make The Last Voyage), also record the panic of an entire town, collapse a real train and a real timber trestle "420 ft. long and 200 ft. high." Yet, disappointingly, the actual sounds of collapse were so implausible that the moviemakers had to resort to studio fabrication, recording the noise of a bent spike being pulled out of a thick board with a crowbar and replaying the sound in an echo chamber at one-third its normal speed. Like the movie itself...