Word: sankes
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...uneasy rumors of defeat hardened into certainty, several party officials violated the election-day ban on alcohol and generously sampled rum. On the other side of Managua, it was well past midnight before Violeta Barrios de Chamorro was finally convinced of her upset victory. As the news sank in, Chamorro's perpetually smiling face clouded with worry. Would the Sandinistas accept the people's verdict? Rising from her wheelchair and perching carefully to favor her right knee, broken in a fall in January, Chamorro gestured for silence among the 100 people gathered in her spacious living room. Then she began...
...down!" hissed members of the agitated crowd in front of Communist Party Central Committee headquarters in Dushanbe, capital of Tadzhikistan. Humiliated, the group of veteran Soviet combat officers and their men sank awkwardly to the ground when ordered to do so by the throng of 10,000 militant Tadzhiks. The troops then listened grimly as a mullah recited the Islamic call to prayer from atop one of their armored vehicles...
With four minutes left in the game, Harvard junior Jen Mazanec hit a baseline jumper to tie the game, 58-58. Odita then sank a free throw to put the Crimson ahead for the first time...
...after freshman Tarik Campbell drew a foul from sophomore Ed Petersen and coolly sank both ends of a one-and-one, McCready almost found himself in the doghouse...
...government time to put the plan into effect, Erman declared a two-day bank holiday Jan. 2 and 3. By midweek thousands of people had gathered outside the country's bank branches, afraid that the value of their savings would evaporate. But as the value of the dollar sank to roughly the same level as before the austral's collapse, the dollar panic seemed to subside, and relieved retailers began rolling back their hasty price hikes...