Word: tanked
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Around the age when he courted and married Mamie Geneva Doud, a slender girl with violet eyes (the Douds' maid was provoked one day when "Mr. I-Something" kept calling every 15 minutes), he was finding a new confidence that led him on to command, at 27, the tank training center at Camp Colt, Pa. But soon after Christmas 1920 their first child, Doud Dwight ("Icky"), died of scarlet fever when he was only three. Ike stumbled out of the hospital room blind with grief, and Mamie, close to a breakdown, lost something of her vitality which...
...Tiger Tank. Like a great many other Germans, Defense Minister Strauss learned about armies the hard way. The butcher's son dodged the early Nazi draft by entering Munich University, where he topped the examination lists, joined a Catholic students' organization and brawled with young Nazis. When the call-up for World War II carne in 1939, he talked himself out of the infantry ("Because I don't like walking") and into the artillery. He was almost court-martialed for calling his uniform a Klufterl (a childish masquerade). But he served in Poland, France, Russia...
...York, Tenley will skate on a specially-installed 20 by 20 foot indoor rink. "I skated on a similar tank last December at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts," Tenley said. "Small tanks are fun, but it's hard to get much glide," she remarked...
...went down to the tank* and handed him your ad. He read it under water and came up with this comment: 'The billing is now strengthened...
Four of the five pre-season standouts for Dudley are sophomores, with back Al Lubetkin, who starred for Winthrop last year, the outstanding upperclassman. The new men are Dave McPhelim and Pete Franchi in the backfield, and Don Tank and Paul Hines in the line. Average weight of the Commuters' line...