Word: tanked
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...More mechanization of dairy farming; for example, "milking direct through pipelines . . . from cow to tank to truck-[the milk] not once handled or lifted...
...first, she had to win a battle for Sister Kenny (Ros had met her in 1940. "She looked like an M4 tank, but her eyes were the loneliest and loveliest I've ever looked into"). Ros became a passionate supporter of the Kenny method of treating infantile paralysis. She begged every one she knew to help her make a movie about the Australian nurse. She finally wore down Charles Koerner, then production head of RKO Radio, and browbeat Dudley Nichols into directing the picture. It was a financial failure, but Ros still ranks...
...give them a single battalion from the Moscow front." On a Kremlin visit shortly before the war's end, Tito heard Stalin call up Marshal Malinovsky whose army had been halted. "You're asleep there, asleep!" Stalin shouted. "You say you haven't tank divisions. My grandma would know how to fight with tanks. It's time you moved. Do you understand...
After a World War I overseas hitch as a tank captain, he settled down to a $75-a-month job preparing briefs for a law firm, and worked briefly as a bank trust officer. He didn't like it, tried politics, served one term as a Republican state representative. When Pittsburgh's Peoples Savings and Trust Co. offered him $7,500 a year as a trust officer, 27-year-old Bill Price grabbed...
...some odd reason, they put me in the tank corps; they never could teach me how to drive, I never could drive anything. So they said I was a menace and classified me as unteachable. Then in the Quartermaster Corps I was a butcher, assigned to a ration-breakdown. Enormous dead cows were tossed on the floor and I had to hack them up." Before he left the service, however, he managed to learn Bulgarian...