Word: sinks
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...solely because she wants her husband to become a minister, and that his own father, who thinks it would be rather good for Lucien's career to have a socially prominent mistress, has been encouraging the whole scheme. To this depth Lucien's ideals cannot let him sink...
...South Bend, Ind. Kolesiak was on the roof tightening guy wires on his antenna when it toppled across a 27,000-volt power line. Immediately, great balls of fire bounced up & down on the roof with thunderous explosions, the plumbing threw off sparks, and pipes melted around the kitchen sink. Mrs. Kolesiak, peeling potatoes, found her spectacles flecked with molten metal, the television set burned out and one of the knobs blew off, the telephone went dead, a glove lying in the yard burst into flames, and the house was scorched in three places. Kolesiak was only slightly burned...
...that mass emigration now would greatly strengthen the United Kingdom, especially if war should come. Britain's fundamental weakness, Airman Whittle believes, is its vulnerability through starvation if atom-bombed or blockaded. Declared Whittle of would-be emigrants: "They have felt they would be guilty of leaving a sinking ship, whereas the truth is that if they leave, the ship might not sink...
Although there is no need to sacrifice the interchangeability program, the Social Committee should reconsider its decision to run the Yale weekend on a communal basis, and, as soon as possible, turn the House Dance Committees loose to sink or swim in the old laissez-faire tradition...
Grand Larceny. In Tulsa, under cover of darkness, thieves made off from Mrs. Estelle Franklin's house with her bathtub, gas stove, kitchen sink...