Word: tanked
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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July 26. Lieut. General O. P. Korchagin, 53, tank commander...
...well-balanced formula of British manners and Arab morals (an English governess taught him etiquette in the mornings; Queen Mother Aliyah read Islamic literature in the evenings), swarthy Feisal grew up a toytown prince, boxed in by such old-fashioned playthings as a 3-ft.-long General Grant tank whose wheel chains were forged out of gold, and a miniature Hurricane fighter, built for him by R.A.F. mechanics. At 14, Feisal knotted on his father King Ghazi's old school tie, trundled off to Harrow, England. Today, he is a thin, straw-hatted upperclassman, with a reputation for athletics...
...Kansas and Missouri rural areas. The Star-Times offices were high & dry in midcity, but Publisher Roy Roberts woke up one morning to find that his ink supply was under 14 feet of water in Kansas City's flooded industrial district. By bringing ink in trucks and tank cars from St. Louis and Philadelphia, he kept the presses rolling...
...Then Fire. Then fire was added to water. The flood ripped up a crude oil storage tank and hurled it against a high tension wire in Kansas City, Mo. The flaming tank drifted into more gasoline and oil storage tanks. Flames shot up 500 feet into the air as the tanks exploded. Flaming oil and gasoline raced on top of the flood, while firemen in boats vainly poured flood water back on to the fire. The blaze, fed by more than one million gallons of oil, demolished seven square blocks. The Star called it "Kansas City's most disastrous...
...languages dubbed in (among them: The True Glory, with General Dwight D. Eisenhower speaking a rippling, dubbed-in Portuguese). Finally, near the end of the course, students cut their way through a jungle of diplomatic, technical and military terms, until such formidable words as protivotankovoe ruzhie (Russian for anti-tank rifle) come tripping off the tongue...