Word: tanked
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Runaway. In Gainesville, Fla., police who arrested Maebell Jackson for ramming into an oil tank reported that she had tried to stop her car by yelling "Whoa! Whoa...
Theatrically, Washington had become the tank town of world capitals. The National Theater, the only legitimate house in town, had decided to run movies rather than obey the Actors' Equity ban on discrimination against Negroes (TIME, Aug. 9). Several willing impresarios were making no headway toward opening a playhouse. It appeared that Washington, for the first time in more than a century, would have no season...
...shipping department of Peter Keevil & Sons, Ltd., London wholesale provisioners, a worker named Jack Bryant found his cigarette lighter empty. Cleverly, he lowered a small medicine bottle on a string into the fuel tank of a company truck, pulled it out full of red gasoline, and replenished his lighter. (Britain's Labor government has decreed the red color for all gas used by commercial vehicles, for easier detection if it leaks into the black market...
Died. Marshal Pavel Semyonovich Rybalko, fortyish, billiard-bald commander in chief of Soviet armored, tank and mechanized troops, who led his tank army into a spectacular breakthrough on the Ukrainian front in December 1943; after long illness; in Moscow...
...result, which cast its shadow over Budapest last week, was probably far superior to the pink marble monuments the Reds have been building in Berlin, and certainly surpassed the obelisks, as characterless as paperweights, with which they have dotted Eastern Europe in the past two years. Instead of a tank, or a bust of Stalin, it featured a high-breasted, neoclassic lady holding a king-size palm leaf 42 feet above her bare bronze toes...