Word: tanked
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Ready Squads." The Russians, who well remember the havoc wrought by Hitler's Panzer divisions, have worked mightily at tank production, now have more tanks in service than the rest of the world's armies combined. In Germany alone, the Reds have at least 4,400 tanks, and in general they are better than any now in regular use by U.S. armored divisions. Most of the tanks in East Germany are 33-ton T-34s null gun), the types used in the Communist attack in Korea...
...Russian attack does come, most experts think it would be in the form of a double-pronged tank and infantry rush across the North German plain and down the Channel coast; smaller units would be committed to destroy U.S. forces in Bavaria, while Soviet reinforcements from the east would pour steadily in through Czechoslovakia and Poland...
After 15 minutes of sustained small-arms fire, the army moved. An M-3 tank and a half-track rumbled into Sixth Avenue. At the Parque Barrios, soldiers unlimbered a .50-cal. machine gun, and scattered the workers. As the streets filled with soldiers, the cops fled. The shooting stopped. Two more citizens had been killed, about 50 wounded...
...second semifinal, the crowd got the thrills it came for. Tearing along at 50 m.p.h., one car lost a rear wheel, dragged 100 yards on its axle before it stopped. The crash broke the fuel tank, spewed gas along the track. Friction set the fuel on fire, leaving a 100-yd. blanket of flame along the right of way. The driver escaped. So did another whose car later spun out of control at 40 m.p.h., crashed head-on into an entrance gate. A Soldier Field electrician who was caught in the crush was less fortunate; he was carried off with...
...long; Joe could not hang on to money. Soon he was on the tank-town circuit, boxing "exhibitions" with local heroes. He joined a circus, talked occasionally of a comeback. Most of his friends and well-wishers were of one mind: "Say it ain't so, Joe." Last week Joe Louis said it was so. Harried by income-tax debts of about $200,000, Joe announced that he would fight again in September. His probable opponent: 29-year-old Ezzard Charles...