Word: sink
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...course, I think in the interest of peace, there come moments when statements, conversation and headlines are not in order." The words were mild enough but the fact that the President took the unusual step of authorizing them for direct quotation showed that he wished them to sink...
...Bureau's defense flocked most of the airlines. Said one airline executive: "After all, we've got to fly the planes. You can't blame a lighthouse if you sink your ship in a hurricane," Said Capt. Eddie Rickenbacker, War ace and general manager of Eastern Air Lines, which has never lost a passenger: "Conditions wouldn't be improved by Government control-they wouldn't be as good as they...
...successor, Mr. Hurley, has delivered himself of several promising statements regarding expenditure and other state matters. Such talk may be little more than pre-nuptial fantasy, but at any rate the citizens of the state can rest assured that he will not sink to the Curley level. Mr. Curley can depart in peace, sure that his leave-taking will be unwept, unhonored, and unsung in local history, except by writers of verse with unusually long and scurrilous memories...
...rectangular chasm, 125 ft. wide and running almost the entire length of the craft, into which disabled ships will be pushed at sea. When an ailing battleship is brought into position before the ARD-3, the dock's great bottom tanks will be pumped full of water to sink its keel below that of the battleship...
...victim, it circulates warmly and unruffled through the channels which God created for noble purposes but which you are about to destroy. ... I am going to my cold and silent grave-my lamp of life is nearly extinguished-my race is run, the grave opens to receive and I sink into its bosom. ... Let no man write my epitaph for as no man knows my motives dare now vindicate them. Let them and me repose in obscurity and peace and my tomb remain uninscribed until other times and other men can do justice to my character. When my country takes...