Word: tanked
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...atomic bomb.) The Cadillac turned into the dignified but flabby reaches of Fifth Avenue as matrons, becalmed by $3 luncheons, heaved out into the 4 o'clock sunshine. At Tiffany's or Cartier's, where a brooch might cost almost as much as a light tank, men & women paused to glance at displays with a diluted, good-natured envy...
...Winston Churchill as the Queen Mary brought him home from his nine weeks in the U.S. "It was as strenuous as a by-election." Furthermore, being a private person instead of a prime minister had made it "like fighting a battle in a shirt after being accustomed to a tank. . . . I've come home for a rest...
After the terrible battle at Falaise in August 1944, a Presbyterian padre in the Canadian Army had a deeply patriotic impulse. From a burned-out tank Major Robert Currie Creelman, M.B.E., took the bones and ashes of an unidentified Canadian, placed them in an urn, brought them home, planned a memorial shrine to all Canadian dead in World...
Sheeler's most recent picture, an oil storage tank surmounted by steel stairs, demonstrated how perfectly his antiseptic style applies to machine-age constructions. The title: It's a Small World (see cut). According to one enthusiast: "If . . . the dynamo has become a 20th-century Virgin, then Sheeler is its Fra Angelico...
...main street of Mukden's former modern Japanese area is now "Stalin Prospect." The Yamato Hotel is "Hotel of the Intourist Travel Agency of Moscow, U.S.S.R." Near Mukden's railway station is a granite-mounted Red Army tank, a memorial to Russian soldiers. Russian and Chinese flags fly together everywhere, but there is little doubt which flag dominates...