Word: tanked
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Karelian Isthmus just north of Leningrad, a Russian artillery barrage and tank attack preceded the infantry advance. Unlike the Poles,*the Finns were ready with anti-tank guns and heavier field artillery. They claimed to have smashed up 54 juggernauts in five days as they fell back on their fortified Mannerheim Line. At Terijoki, seat of the new Red puppet Finnish "Government" (see p. 26), they left land mines which they claimed blew up thousands of Russians...
...which built a defense-in-depth system across the Karelian Isthmus. Fashionable, popular way for Finns to spend their vacation the past two years was to go dig on the Mannerheim Line. This stretches 55 miles across the lowlands and, besides pillboxes and blockhouses, it contains a maze of tank traps and barriers. The fields and fir forests here are studded with granite boulders, which the Finns arranged in serried ranks, buried deeply with their jagged points sticking six feet...
Cutler has been described as the most genuine and inspiring leader of Crimson tank forces in several years, while it can truthfully be said that not for a long time has such a real harmony of interests existed between captain and coach as it has this season. Frannie Powers, plucky middle-distance free-styler who earned much praise last year for his superb competitive spirit, is back again better than ever. He is expected to concentrate in the 100 and 220, though his first love...
Both apt and arch is the tank officer's metaphor...
...winkle to which the tank officer joco-grimly alluded is a snail served at English pubs. It is extracted with...