Word: tanked
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Journalist Hemingway (objective, conscientious and in good taste), were struck by his description of signs of Italian valor on the battlefield of "little Caporetto" or Brihuega last week. "The scrub oak woods," cabled Journalist Hemingway, "are still full of Italian dead that burial squads have not yet reached. Tank tracks lead to where they died, not as cowards but defending skillfully constructed machine-gun and automatic-rifle positions, where the tanks found them and where they still lie. The track of a tropical hurricane leaves a capricious swath of complete destruction, but the two parallel grooves the tank leaves...
...solaces himself with Harriet, a travel-book writer. That affair lasts until Harriet's professional duties call her away to the pirates of Bias Bay. Then Juan falls into Kuo Kuo's clutches again, and almost before he knows it he finds himself in a tin-armored tank advancing against the Japanese intrenchments, under heavy but inaccurate fire. How Author Linklater extricates his hero from that parlous position is a caution...
Even official Berlin broadcasts admitted the Italians had suffered heavy losses, Rome was mum with mortification, and Madrid broadcasters had the Italians fleeing headlong as at Caporetto, in utter rout, abandoning field guns, anti-tank guns, ammunition, food and even that soldiers' treasure-cigarets-as Soviet bombing and pursuit planes harried them from the skies' and Red Militiamen charged after them through deep mud and slush...
...first time this year two Freshman crews braved the March cold yesterday to join their Varsity brothers, who have been rowing on the river since February 20. Ice forming later in the afternoon kept the Yardling fifties in the tank, but Coach Bert Haines intends to launch them today...
More likely, though, the Kiphuth tradition has them worried. It's almost as bad as the Dartmouth jinx. Only, the legend that Bob has built up is not based on luck. There are long and tedious grinds through the tank, novel exercises and constant experimentation...