Word: tanked
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...enlisted man in the Canadian Tank Corps at 15, he later spent six months in the U.S. Navy, was booted out on a physical. Encouraged by the sound of his resonant voice, he became "the world's worst announcer" for San Francisco's Mutual outlet, moved on from station to station ("Whenever I got a new job I got married to celebrate"). Before his first year on TV was out, hard-drinking Don had missed more than 30 telecasts, but no one seemed to care. He latched onto two shows, Where's Sherwood? and Why Sherwood...
Russian T-34 tanks patrolled the road to Damascus last week, and from the high skies over Syria came the whistling roar of Russian MIG-17 jet fighters. But to Syrians the tank patrols and jet nights were becoming routine: Russian arms have been arriving in Syria in quantity for two years. Damascus itself was calm in the summer sunshine, but whether Syria's plain citizens realized it or not (the heavily censored press gave them little to go on), their country was the No. 1 topic in chancelleries and foreign offices around the world. Cabinets met to consider...
Catholic Taste. In Spring Creek, Pa., the sheriff was trying to deduce what sort of thieves they were who robbed Andrew Szewczuk of 1) 300 lbs. of frozen beef, 2) 1,000 phonograph records, 3) 40 gallons of paint, 4) a hot-water tank, 5) a grass seeder, 6) a leather jacket, 7) a pair of roller skates, and 8) some false-teeth powder...
...steel caps. By German "black" radio, the British heard that the Germans had a "fog-pill" by which parachutists would float down in the semblance of a small cloud. Actually, at the time, Hitler's Chiefs of Staff were toying with a "War Crocodile"-a huge reinforced-concrete tank designed to crawl across the Channel on the sea floor. The public was officially warned against strange gossamer-like threads seen floating in the air. They turned out not to be a secret weapon but something to do with the mating of spiders...
...tank held on by baling wire...