Word: sunk
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...these were the gloomy prophecies in circulation about us, there were hardly less gloomy speculations about the future of the United States. If Hitler conquered Britain, the British Fleet would be sunk or surrendered or scattered among the British nations overseas. Yet was it not clear that American security required two fleets, the British Fleet, based on British blocking the entry of hostile European fleets into the eastern Atlantic, and the United States Fleet predominant in the Pacific? It was this dual system which protected the Monroe Doctrine and which alone could keep war distant from American shores...
That, too, was the time of the gloomy revelation in the press that the United States was as unprepared for modern war as all the other democracies had been. The prospect, therefore, before the United States, if the British Fleet was sunk or surrendered or sailed away to the outer parts of the British Empire, was not rosy. With Hitler and Mussolini's navies and the remains of the French Fleet based on the eastern rim of the Atlantic and on strategic islands well out in the Atlantic, would not the whole American Fleet have to come back...
...TIME, Nov. 18], Aside from the fact that the City of Rayville was my home for over a year and a half, I still think that she earned more descriptive notoriety than what you allowed since she is the first ship under an American flag to be sunk, in this...
...Rayville having been sunk so close to shore finally materializes the fears that some of us treated as so much buckshaw before entering the outer harbor at Hong Kong this last summer. Among the usual untraceable rumors that spread around the ship, was one about mine fields that were supposed to have been all over that particular area of the China...
...British Admiralty remained ominously silent last week about what Germany described as one of the war's fiercest submarine attacks. Hunting in a pack, guided to a big convoy by air reconnaissance, the U-boats were said to have hit and sunk 16, perhaps 18 ships west of Ireland, including a merchant cruiser. With other losses from scattered attacks by bombers and U-boats, this furious assault, would shoot Britain's tonnage loss for the week far above 100,000 - if true...