Word: tanked
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...super-modernistic Presbyterian Chapel in Pennsylvania's Pocono Mountains at Delaware Water Gap, to be equipped with movable seats and altars, whose arrangement will depend "upon the time of day, the position of the sun and the purpose of the meeting." The tower will contain a water tank...
...Lend-Lease supplying of the Red Army. They were "a weird, shambling, offbeat outfit" of white and Negro road builders, stevedores, engineers, mechanics and medics. In all their months of labor, from the winter of 1942 to the winter of 1944, they never saw an enemy plane or tank, never ducked an angry bullet. But their struggle to do an essential job under harrowing conditions is one of the epics of the war, and Joel Sayre's witty, comprehensive account (which first appeared in the New Yorker) is one of the most readable of war correspondents' books...
...Nova, heavyweight fighter, was suddenly homeless-after his horse kicked over a tank of butane gas, sent the fighter's Los Angeles diggings up in flames...
After Pearl Harbor, both Spalding and Wilson turned their precision machinery to the manufacture of small arms and tank helmets. They had gone on making some sports equipment, but the military had snapped up almost 80% of it. Last week, with all arms contracts canceled, the first dribble of postwar sporting goods was on its way to the nation...
Aboard the train, the corporal and his three buddies "commandeered" a first-class compartment, and added a pregnant mother and her children ("someone suitableand deserving") to the group. One of the soldiers questioned the pregnant woman, whose husband worked in an anti-tank gun factory. "[Your husband] didn't come out on strike, did he?" asked the soldier. "Yes, he did-twice." "Why?" asked the soldier. "They wasn't paying enough, and it was terrible long hours." "We could have done with those guns," snapped the soldier. . . . Suddenly he blushed and became apologetic: "Sorry, miss...