Word: tanked
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...students in a tank...
From dawn until dusk 200,000 tank troops and motorized infantry poured across the border, successively occupying Moravská Ostrava, Pilsen, Koblovice. The huge iron works at Vitkovice were taken (according to the official German News Bureau) "so fast that Communist workmen could not carry out their plans to damage the plant...
...Franco trenches in University City. At one time the Communist revolters surged down the Paseo de Recoletos to the famed Plaza de Cibeles, on which are located the buildings of the Banco de Espana, the central post office and the War Ministry. They were driven back by a tank attack...
...very strong ally in good old Brokaw Pool--better known as simply old Brokaw Pool. This bath, built in the days when the trudgeon was man's fastest way of cleaving the waters, is not designed for modern intercollegiate swimming as most any Princeton man will readily admit. The tank is but four lanes wide and this narrowness results in a pretty rough surface when four sprinters are making their splashy way down the lanes...
Aside from its general resemblance to a bathtub, the Nassau tank generously overflows into the laps of the spectators during every race, all of which does not promote good will toward the padding sport. Also, life was tough for the backstrokers. As they surged along on their respective backs they were forced to see not a decent ceiling, but a be-girdered roof cluttered with Tiger fans clinging to the rafters. One eager Bengal rooter even dropped his raincoat into the tank, but not during a race--it was only during the dive...