Word: tanked
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...land where highways are likely to be blocked so that trailers can haul their menacing, canvas-shrouded packages to the secret precincts beyond the gates. Tank trucks make shuttle runs between the Titusville railroad sidings and the Cape, carefully hauling highly volatile liquid oxygen for rocket fuel. It is a land of piercing shrieks and thunderous roars, and when the shrieks and the roars combine in one nerve-racking racket, housewives, office workers and schoolchildren rush outdoors to watch another missile on the way, and to compare notes on its performance...
...supported the family as a $46-a-week bookbinding machine operator. But Marty's father liked to drive Marty's jalopy, and if he went out at night and found it short of gas, he would wake the youngster and beat him for not keeping a full tank...
MICHIGAN TAX HASSLE, which caused General Motors President Harlow H. Curtice to warn that automakers may locate new plants out of state to avoid high corporate taxes, is also affecting contracts awarded by armed forces. Army gave $119 million tank contract to Chrysler, but told automaker to fill order at its Delaware plant because using Detroit facilities would pad bill by $300,000 Michigan tax, plus $1,579,000 in other costs...
...hall and tank, at basketball...
...Western Premier Nuri asSaid, got down to the business at hand: Soviet penetration, via Syria and Egypt's Gamal Abdel Nasser, of the Middle East. Saud, who mistrusts the British, watched parades of British-supplied military units, climbed aboard and peered through the hatch of a British Centurion tank. Probably the most significant meeting of the week was a private, unscheduled lunch given for the two monarchs by Premier asSaid at his yellow brick home on the banks of the Tigris. There was no public mention of Egypt's Nasser;* there was no need...