Word: tanked
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...unknown Hungarian youth who, wagering his life and shedding his blood, showed us that a freedom-loving heart is mightier than a tank...
Motorists were equally undeterred when harassed filling station operators instituted an informal limit of ten liters (about 2% gallons) per customer, simply made the rounds of three or four stations to get a full tank. In Paris every dawn found at least 40 or 50 cars lined up before every gas pump, and by every noon the pumps were...
...poor little rich boy there are some gold-plated gadgets. Mystic River Sales has a junior fire engine, "The Firebird" ($500), that a child can drive at 5 m.p.h., operating a 1½-gallon pressure water tank that squirts water 25 ft. The Charles Wm. Doepke Mfg. Co. has an electric locomotive, "The Yardbird" ($225), that can transport a young engineer from room to room on an eight-inch gauge track. F.A.O. Schwarz has a wooden stockade ($75) with corner peephole boxes through which young pioneers can see the "attacking enemy...
...Soviet tanks were out in the streets again. But the Soviet soldiers, Asian faces from faraway Mongolia and Kirghizstan, seemed utterly confused. Some asked whether the river Raba, which runs through Gyor, was "really the Suez Canal." At Kobanyia a Russian officer "sold" his tank to rebels for 44 Ibs. of bread. One reason the Soviet Union was not hitting harder may have been provided by a report that 5,000 to 6,000 disarmed and untrusted Soviet soldiers were being held in a camp at Satoraljaujhely. Other refugees reported 200 to 300 Russian deserters fighting on the side...
...even from Worker staffers. He added: "It described certain excesses committed by Soviet troops. I saw the result of one of them. I saw an old man of 70 lying on the pavement dead, with a loaf of bread in his hand. He had been shot by a Soviet tank as he was coming away from a bread shop. I argued that there was no 'White terror' in Hungary. The rising against the Communist government of Hungary was supported by 99% of the people, including a great number of ordinary honest rank-and-file members of the Communist...