Word: sank
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...caught the nation's eye with an enlarged version of his thoughtful college thesis, Why England Slept. Later, as a Navy lieutenant in the Solomon Islands, he became an authentic war hero, saved the lives of his crewmen after a Japanese destroyer knifed through their PT boat and sank...
Once he put a partially paralyzed dolphin in a pool. As it sank helplessly toward the bottom, it gave its "mayday" call, and the other dolphins rushed to its rescue. They boosted it up to the surface so it could breathe. When it sank again, one of them swam under it, scraping its tender undersurface and triggering a reflex action of its tail that shot it up to the air. The operation was accompanied by a blizzard of dolphin talk...