Word: tanked
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Marshal Viscount Montgomery of El Alamein has a passing tactical knowledge of the Battle of Gettysburg. But for West Pointer Dwight Eisenhower, the Confederacy's high-water mark holds more than passing fascination. Ike first refought Gettysburg 40 years ago while stationed at nearby Camp Colt as a tank-corps captain. He has fought it since from his farm close by the field where the Confederates made their final desperate charge. Last week, carrying out a three-year promise, he took Old Comrade in Arms Montgomery out to fight it again...
...January 1949, an LST flying the red-and-blue ensign of Nationalist China pulled away from the dock at Nanking and headed down the muddy Yangtze, its tank deck crammed with a priceless cargo. Another heavily laden LST had already made its way safely across the East China Sea to Formosa. Later, a freighter was to complete the epic task of saving from Communist hands the art treasures assembled over the centuries, and collected in the Peking Palace Museum and Nanking's Central Museum...
...some circles in Scranton, Pa., talk of sugar in the gas tank or the stench of a stink bomb is likely to evoke gales of laughter. It also evoked interest on the part of Senator John McClellan's labor-rackets investigating committee, which followed its nose to the aroma and found-rotten eggs in Scranton's building-trades and teamsters unions. See NATIONAL AFFAIRS, The Ungentle...
Some of the Scranton union tactics were as simple as a tooth-busting fist. Others were more ingenious; e.g., threatening to douse the milk, eggs and butter of a nonunion dairy truck with kerosene, and pouring sugar into the gasoline tank of a steam roller on a highway construction job. (One of the goons gave his left-over sugar to a girl friend for household use.) Soft-spoken William E. Cochran, a construction foreman for a nonunion firm, told how the threats of union goons drove him to the Scranton city solicitor. James McNulty, for protection. McNulty, it turned...
...Citizens Bank of Americus refused to grant Koinonia more loans; the gas supplier for the farm's heating and cooking, the hardware dealer, the tractor dealer, and the mechanic who serviced the farm vehicles refused to do business with Koinonia. The farm's gas tank was shot up, its roadside produce stand (with cold-storage and meat-processing equipment) was dynamited and destroyed. The main building on an adjoining farm owned by the community was burned to the ground, and later twelve shotgun blasts were fired into the farm, showering some of the Koinonia children with pellets...