Word: tanked
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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There were more idlers on the streets. Bowling alleys were filled nightly with spectators who came in for a free show. By day men scoured the town for work. A theater manager who was installing a septic tank at his new home outside of town said: "A couple of days ago three fellows came out and asked if they could have the job. I told them they could do the digging at a dollar an hour. They took it. Why, Jackson hasn't seen such prices in the building business since before...
...film. At sea, there is a struggle between the old captain and the young first mate over the education of the boy, plus a few adventures with whales and icebergs, which are covered so quickly and superficially that one wonders why the directors bothered to fill their studio tank...
...When the Germans came, Abraham fled to Russia. The Germans caught up with him again at Stalino, where he had found a job pushing coal cars in the mines. With 500 others, Abraham was marched away to a field outside town, ordered to stand in front of an anti-tank ditch and stripped of his clothes. He fainted, and fell too soon to hear the staccato of the German machine guns. When he awoke it was dark and rainy, the ditch was filled with bodies. Abraham lay still. Later he crawled on hands and knees and found four other...
When the hose was finally screwed in, it sprung two leaks and scattered spray over 50 more students. Then a tank burst open in another truck and flooded the front seat...
...engine of Hose Truck Number 5 began to boil over. Firefighters lifted the hood and stuck a hose into the water tank. The hose slipped out and bathed about ten more spectators...