Word: tanked
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...number of automobiles in use this spring makes the harried pedestrian look to the city for help. Otherwise a mission to McBrides or the Coop will take on all the sport of playing touch-tag with a tank formation...
...Colonel Blimpish British mine owner who looked forward to the return of unemployment as a cure for the contagion of absenteeism (sometimes 40 percent) which broke out whenever big sports events nearby attracted his work-weary miners; the farmer (of military age) hopefully sowing his field on which a tank rusted, near Saint-Lô, Normandy (see cut); the profound, silent distrust of eleven-year-old Filomena Carciopoli, of Puzzuoli, Italy, who sullenly concealed her starving seven-month-old sister under a bed so they could not take the baby to a hospital...
...were landed on Peleliu one dawn; forty-eight hours later, only 78 of them were alive. Most of an entire platoon of his, racing to the assault, had suddenly felt the ground collapse under them, and had found themselves wallowing at the bottom of a mammoth tank-trap, while Jap machine-gunners literally ripped them apart. The other rifle platoons stormed their way onto a nearby point of the island-and found themselves cut off. When, at last, relief came and Captain Hunt and his handful of men staggered back to the beach, they had withstood three terrible counterattacks...
Like the others, Omaha Beachhead is the bleak, official diary of a single, limited period of battle, written for the men who fought there, compiled from U.S. and enemy action reports and interviews. In language as unemotional as a tank tread, it catalogues the step-by-step, hedge-by-hedge progress of units, from company-size up. It begins at H-hour, chronicles the fighting until the First Army turned and drove for Cherbourg...
...chamber is a steel cylinder made of half-inch galvanized plate. Three feet in diameter and five feet high, it looks like a fat hot-water tank with an escape hatch. In addition to one cramped geologist sitting on a cushioned, red-leather seat, the chamber carries emergency oxygen, communication equipment and testing apparatus. The cylinder will withstand the pressure at a depth of 100 feet. A two-ton lead block attached to the bottom provides stability and a safety factor: the block can be released by turning a handle inside the cell to send the chamber bobbing...