Word: tanked
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Budapest even the food stores were closed. An old news vendor had her news papers snatched away and torn to shreds. There was water, gas and electric power, but no traffic police. Some Soviet tanks stood roped off in planted positions, but armored cars patrolled continuously. In front of the National Theater, Sunday gathering place for Budapest, an old man, made brave by wine, smashed his empty bottle against a Soviet tank. Police rushed in, beat up the old man with rifle butts. This was too much for the crowd. They roughed up the police. The Russians fired a machine...
...lieutenant and his kidnapers, Egyptians carried out a dozen or more grenade, small-arms and even rocket attacks on British and French night patrols. After Egyptian snipers killed one British patrol commander, Lieut. General Sir Hugh Stockwell carried out his threat to "meet force with force," sent a tank-supported battalion on another Arab-quarter roundup. The raid turned into a street battle in which, according to one U.N. officer, 27 Egyptians were killed...
Next day the women returned, bearing wreaths and black flags; this time Puppet Premier Janos Kadar's newly revamped security police beat them back with gun butts. When some of the women took cover in the British legation, a Russian tank lumbered up and stuck its gun into the open door. In his iciest Foreign Office manner, First Secretary Christopher Cope told the tank commander that he needed no Russian protection from "our Hungarian friends." Another delegation of women entered the U.S. legation a couple of blocks away, with a plea for U.N. help. Four Russian tanks roared...
Although he was hired primarily as an administrator, he has been called on to make policy decisions during Dulles' absences. His conduct during the Saudi Arabian tank controversy and his demand that Nationalist China be included as an "equal" in U.S.-Red China negotiations over Formosa were notably inept actions, and certainly disenchanted the White House...
Died. Major General Charles Macon ("Bull") Wesson, 78, onetime West Point ('00) line-bucker, later Chief of Army Ordnance, who took over that appropriations-poor department in 1938, had held the post for three years when the U.S. staggered into World War II without an outstanding tank design or artillery piece and still using World War I helmets, by his retirement in 1942 had fired up the Army's weapons program to nearly full steam; in Washington...