Word: tanked
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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After the race, Coach Brown exulted. "We realized the ambition of every lightweight crew: to beat the heavyweights in a straight race." The eight was the lightest crew there, and were proportionally handicapped. The careful training of long months on the Charles and in the tank, however, paid off; for the first time in the 128-years history of the Henley Regatta, Harvard triumphed...
...Walter Alston unnerved by photos that showed him hanging in effigy near the hocks of a San Pedro, Calif, gas station's flying red horse? "I'm more worried about winning today's game," said the Dodger manager, still running on half a tank of sporting cliches. "You do the best you can, and it's useless to worry about it. It's not so nice to lose as to win, but you have to learn to take...
...inland side of Beirut's strategic International Airport, officers of the U.S. Army's 187th Airborne Battle Group were working on a battle plan. They were ready, if called upon, to roll up the Basta, a Moslem area of Beirut held by Nasserite rebels, sealed by deep tank traps, banked with sandbags, defended by carefully sited automatic weapons. But there were immediate problems in the olive grove. Inevitably, the trucks and heavy combat vehicles of the 187th were barging into some of the olive trees causing damage, and there was the question of compensation for the Lebanese olive...
...commander, Major Luther Lyles, thought they were Iranians or Turks, quickly changed his mind when they started firing. Lyles lowered his landing gear-"to indicate we were under their control"-and ordered everybody into chutes. Seconds later the MIGs made a second firing pass, set an engine and wing tank ablaze. Lyles gave orders to bail out, and five men did. Then he looked around for a place to set down, just made it to a 2,000-ft. Soviet air force emergency dirt landing strip. The MIGs followed the C118 down. One of them made another firing pass when...
...weather: Sceptre had lost to Evaine in light airs and in sheltered waters. She was designed to be at her best in the rough autumn winds expected off Newport when the cup races start in September. "We fed statistics about Rhode Island conditions into our calculations," said Test-Tank Superintendent Bill Crago, who helped choose the winner from the eight designs submitted to Britain's Royal Yacht Squadron. "Out came Sceptre...