Word: sank
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...papers called him "the Red Light Bandit." On two occasions, he forced a woman to get into his car and perform, as the indictments later charged, an "unnatural sex act." One of the victims, a girl of 17, was also forced to submit to "attempted rape." The girl later sank into schizophrenia, has been confined to a state hospital for nearly as long as Caryl Chessman has been confined on Death Row. Some psychiatrists think that the ordeal inflicted upon her by the gunman is partly to blame for her mental illness...
...Republican Congressmen-Ben Jensen, Charles Hoeven, Fred Schwengel, H. R. Gross and John Kyl.* The lowans, who sought the meeting to measure Nixon's stand on farm policies, blasted Ezra Benson, cited the painful and growing surplus situation and the severe drop in farm income (which in 1959 sank no less than 16% or $2.1 billion from 1958). They warned Nixon that the Democrats would probably pass a wild cornucopia of a farm bill that Ike would have to veto. The political consequences in farm country, they said, were easy to foretell: the Democrats could then declare that...
...Mekong River, their chins resting on their canes, awaiting the fiery sunset. Finally the younger brother spoke: "I wish fervently that the future may give us peace, that we can always remain a placid people." The older brother nodded and continued to watch in silence as the sun slowly sank below the jungle horizon...
Silver & Jewels. Coghlan also covets Standard Oil Heir William L. Harkness's 2O5-ft. yacht Gunilda, which sank in 200 ft. of water off Rossport on Aug. 31, 1911. Coghlan has researched the Gunilda's last hours, is convinced that $250,000 in silverware and jewels are inside the yacht's rotting hulk. After that he hopes to investigate a promising underwater copper deposit off Rossport. He also thinks he can make money retrieving pulpwood "worth at least $2,000,000" that lines the harbor bottom at Thunder Bay (about one pulpwood log in 20 sinks during...
...Belgian freighter Vinotra broke in two and sank in heavy seas off Holland. Its master and his wife, the only persons on board, were missing...