Word: tanked
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...this job, Canadian Car & Foundry Co., Ltd. was fitting a single-engined Norseman, with $20,000 worth of extras: hydraulically operated ski-wheels plus floats, spare fuel tank, radio altimeter and a special compass for polar navigation. At month's end the plane will be tested, then dismantled, crated and shipped to the Falkland Islands...
Last week, beefy, blue-eyed Tighe (rhymes with buy) Woods invited newsmen to his air-conditioned Washington office and shyly announced that he had a surprise for them: he had built a house to sell for $6,750, including a ½-acre lot and a septic tank. Explained Woods: "I thought it was about time somebody did something about housing the guy who makes $50 a week. The building industry told me it couldn't be done, so I decided to find out for myself...
...neck, and collected a glass of blood which I drank." In 1944 William McSwan had been disposed of in much the same way-"I hit him on the head," dictated Haigh. "I withdrew a quantity of blood and drank it. I put him in a 40-gallon tank and disposed of him with acid...
...wives and youngsters had a wonderful time at the swimming pool and among the rock-bottom prices of the post exchange. And, said one reservist's wife at Fort MacArthur: "It's a pleasure to be here and know that my husband is really out with a tank and not a blonde...
...carry on these activities, the Biology Department and the two Institutes of Botany have acres of facilities all over North America, including an Arboretum in Jamaica Plain, a garden in Cuba, a forest in Petersham, and a concrete tank in Woods Hole full of diatoms, molluses, and sea water. But the most amazing place of all is the 400-room laboratory on Divinity Avenue that carries a two-foot cucumber