Word: tanked
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...last month a Greek patrol on Gamma island, which is about the size of a football field, walked into a Bulgar ambush and lost four men killed and two wounded. It became painfully clear to the Greeks that the Bulgars, egged on by the Russians who have a tank army close to the Evros, were determined not only to annex Alpha, but also to grab Gamma, which has been attached to the Greek shore ever since the Evros River shifted its channel to the Bulgar side some ten years...
What lies in the still more distant future for Merck & Co.? One of the most forward-looking experiments now under way at Merck is designed to measure fatigue. A laboratory rat is placed in a tank of water, and with each stroke of a foreleg, he sets off a series of complex electronic devices to record his acceleration. From this, Merck scientists hope to learn more about muscular fatigue in general, and how it can be influenced by hormones. Beyond that, neither George Merck nor his 425 scientific and medical researchers can tell, and probably they would not if they...
...exhibit last week, and swelled with pride at what they saw. On show at the Philbrook Art Center in Tulsa were 30 paintings that told the story of petroleum -step by step from geologist camp right down to the huge refineries, with their silvery tank farms and mazelike array of pipes and towers...
...Synthetic. The Firestone Tire & Rubber Co. began production of a synthetic rubber which it claims is as good as but cheaper than the famed "cold rubber" synthetic now used in making most tires. The new synthetic is usable directly after coming out of the "hot process" tank, eliminates the need for costly refrigeration used in present synthetic processes. Another advantage: the new rubber will cut costs of future construction of synthetic plants...
...except from the air, which he countered with his jets and hard-hitting anti-aircraft defenses. The U.N. had no policy except to try beating down the Red negotiators "with verbal maneuvers and high-flown rhetoric-which had no more effect than so much birdshot against a tank...