Word: tanked
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Between the wars he served as a cavalryman in Syria and Morocco, but he also studied armored war at Saumur. He still refers to himself occasionally as un vieux blindé (an old tank officer). In the late '30s he became chief of the German Section of the Deuxième Bureau (Intelligence), and by war's beginning he was well known as a good intelligence officer. When the Nazis entered Paris in 1940, the Gestapo made a beeline for his apartment, but their bird had flown, joined up with the headquarters of the army in the retreat...
...Since then he has been working toward bigger projects. A few weeks ago he had the idea of refueling his latest model through a plastic tube running up the control wire. With help from older fans, he fitted the model with an extra gas tank and rigged the plastic tube...
First trial, which was at night, lasted for 3 hrs. 43 min., but was cut off after a counteroffensive by kept-awake neighbors. A good part of Fayetteville was on hand during Sherman's next flight". Every seven minutes or so, he pumped fresh gasoline into the tank. The flight would have lasted even longer if the extra gas tank had not vibrated loose. If the model had been flying in a straight line, it would have covered 257 air miles...
...first program of the series, Shipyard Worker Roland Allen told how one day he was inside a ship's fuel tank, welding a lid, when he found that the lid's bolts, which he had tightened with his fingers because he had forgotten his wrench, would not come unscrewed, and he was trapped inside. "The first thought that came to me was the subject of the Lesson-Sermon to be read in all Christian Science churches the next day, 'God the Preserver of Man.' I kept this in mind and prayed as I had been taught...
...Paramount, where even the big tank (for shooting water scenes) was dry, most of the gardeners were let go and secretaries were permitted to uproot the plants and take them home...