Word: tanked
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Suspicious Patient. In the trial room, under the glare of movie cameras, the pale young woman told how, early in the fight, she had knocked out a Soviet tank with a hand grenade. At Domonkos hospital she and her ten codefendants, none of them over 30, had used the hospital Mimeograph machine to crank out a revolutionary newspaper called Truth. The editors were Gyula Obersovszky, onetime cultural editor of a provincial newspaper who had been expelled from the party for organizing a satirical cabaret show, and Jozsef Gali, ailing survivor of Nazi concentration camps, who had fallen into disgrace with...
Sugar & Arrows. By that time, some Aurorans were voicing a lusty opinion of Egan's stewardship. They stuffed sugar into the gas tank of his auto, burned him in effigy, shot flaming arrows into his six-room house. The arrows, some said, came from Indians. "Many people are mad at the mayor," explained one man. "I do not see why the Indians should be excluded...
...inside the windowed, diving-bell-shaped chamber. With Smith went Diver William J. Biller, 33. long experienced in recompression emergencies, to help in the battle for life. With the chamber door slammed and bolted, Biller waited as compressed air began to shriek in. Soon the air pressure inside the tank built up to 73.4 Ibs. per sq. in.-the equivalent of the pressure 165 ft. below sea level...
...Biller began another long wait. The chamber pressure equaled that of 60 ft. below sea level; he would have to stay in the tiny (4 ft. 10 in. wide, 9 ft. 11 in. long) tank for the long, slow decompression cycle to bring him back to the earth's atmosphere. He sat there with the dead man's body for the rest of the night, then all through the next day and the next night, and into early hours of the following morning. He slept a few fretful moments on his tiny bench. Once or twice he whistled...
Finally, the last of the pressurized air whistled dryly out of the tank, and Biller heard the clank of eight bolts. It was 39 hours after he entered the chamber-30 hours since Eldon Smith died-when the entrance hatch opened and Bill Biller returned somberly to the world of the living...