Word: tanked
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Standing on the driver's seat of the lead tank, Monson stretched his long legs, then pulled down his goggles against the driving snow. All but his head and shoulders disappeared through the hatch and he gave her the gun. Followed by the others, his lead M-24 snarled and roared down the almost deserted post street, heading for the back area of the reservation...
Noon chow and a short session on the sack were over by 1 p.m. and the company was back at the tank part for two hours of what the cavalry armored men still call "stables." The tanks were carefully worked over, guns cleaned. Then there was a dull lecture on military courtesy, an hour of athletics before the evening meal. After dinner Monson and two buddies changed to Class A uniform (cotton shirt and Eisenhower jacket), went down to the orderly room to pick up passes...
This story was making the rounds in Manila last week: the U.S. Army, discovering that a pipeline from a hilltop gasoline storage tank was being tapped, started running water through the pipes. Within a few hours every bus, jeep and taxi in Manila had sputtered to a stop...
...work on the small punching bag, the hangers-on tried to borrow five or ten, or find out "How's ya condition." Rocky liked to tell them kiddingly that he was going to throw the fight: "Naw, bet on the other guy . . . I'm going into the tank." Then he always gave them the same brush-off: "See ya later...
Crimson mermen will take to the tank against Columbia's Lions at 4 o'clock today in New York before a swollen Alumni Week crowd, in an attempt to make Coach Hal Ulen's "We ought to beat them" prediction an established fact...