Word: tanked
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...allies ran into cleverly-laid minefields covered by accurate mortar fire, tank traps dug across the roads, determined counterattacks. Thousands of Chinese filtered back into the top of the lost "iron triangle" which they had left two weeks before. There were bloody clashes. One piece of high ground there changed hands five times in one day. U.N. infantrymen charging with fixed bayonets were met by bayonet-wielding Chinese. On the eastern front, the Reds were firing deadly artillery barrages, mostly at night. Some Eighth Army officers expected a Chinese offensive on June 25, the anniversary...
Paris' Museum of Modern Art was as full of cheerful curves as a tank of porpoises. Reason: a big show of the ballooning sculptures of 66-year-old French Sculptor Henri Laurens. Laurens, a sculptor in a generation noted mainly for its painters, is little known outside his own set, which includes School-of-Paris Veterans Picasso, Braque and Leger. But his big bulging nudes last week earned him plaudits from critics as the greatest of living French sculptors...
Married. Ruth McCormick ("Bazy") Miller, 30, niece of Colonel Robert R. ("Bertie") McCormick and editor of his Washington Times-Herald until she quit in a dispute over policy (TIME, April 16), and Garvin E. ("Tank") Tankersley, 39, former Times-Herald assistant managing editor who was first exiled to the Chicago Tribune, fired a couple of months later; both for the second time; at Al-Marah, Bazy's Montgomery County, Md. estate...
Diego Rivera, the Western Hemisphere's greatest living painter, is working on a mural that will be half under water. Last week, at 64, the frog-shaped Master was completing his work in a Mexico City tank that looks like an empty swimming pool; actually, it is the distribution chamber of a new water-supply system for Mexico City...
...west wall, through which the water will enter the tank, shows two huge hands cupping the inflow, and workmen and engineers presenting the water to the people in construction helmets. The south wall is dominated by a huge, bewildered-looking Negro. Near him stand a dried-up old woman-Rivera's idea of the Mexican aristocracy-and a boy leading a monkey. The monkey, Rivera says, "represents the Mexican middle class and also intellectuals, not excluding many politicians. During the 19th Century, they tried to imitate French culture and the English way of life, and now in the 20th...