Word: tanked
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Young Lochinvar. In Bad Kreuznach, West Germany, after he stole a 50-ton M-47 tank and chugged for a seven-mile joy ride, Private Walter F. Brown got a two-year prison sentence despite his explanation that he took the tank to show his girl friend that he could drive...
...Freedom Fighters filled the empty bottles with gasoline and corked them with table napkins, making what they called "benzine flashes." About midnight a woman reported that there was a Russian tank by itself in Jozsef Street. Ferenc and an apprentice Freedom Fighter (aged 13) went...
Ferenc and the boy entered a house at the corner of the dark street and worked their way across rooftops and down ladders until they came to the house before which the tank was parked. Says Ferenc: "I was very frightened. Here I was with a 13-year-old boy and a bottle of gasoline." Ferenc put a handkerchief in the mouth of the bottle, tipped the bottle up to soak it with gas, set the handkerchief alight and dropped the "benzine flash" on the rear end of the tank. Says he: "An enormous flame shot up, and the whole...
Three days later Peter Szanto, full-fledged Freedom Fighter, fought in the biggest tank battle of the revolution. When word reached the barracks that Russian tanks were coming, the colonel ordered complete quiet. The tanks came close to the barracks wall, but no one stirred. Some infantry appeared and shot up the building, but the Freedom Fighters did not return the fire. Finally there were 20 tanks, some 75 infantrymen, a truck, and an armored car outside the barracks. "Colonel Maleter came and looked down," recalls Peter Szanto. "He picked up a small nitroglycerin bottle and threw...
Such were Allen's tributes to vaudeville. But he loved it, despite its leeching managers and overnight hops, shoebox lunches and tank-town audiences. To him, it was a school of inventive self-reliance peopled with lovable oddballs. A gaudy branch of human botany, vaudeville finds in Fred Allen an affectionate and scrupulous botanist who cherishes every last contortionist, hypnotist, iron-jawed lady, human xylophone, one-armed cornetist, rube comedian, Hindu conjurer and clay modeler who ever played a split week east of Lompo,. Calif. or west of Maiden, Mass...