Word: tanked
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Ukraine rolled across from the east. Polish and Russian troops quickly seized the industrial city of Ostrava in northern Czechoslovakia. Some 250 Soviet T-54 tanks raced from Hungary into the Slovak capital of Bratislava. They hit the city at an awesome tank speed of 35 m.p.h., their smoking treads churning up the asphalt as they knocked down lampposts, street signs, even automobiles that stood in their...
...long guns of tanks swiveled from side to side in the baroque alleyways of Prague. The Russians surrounded the presidential palace on Hradcany Hill, planted artillery on the heights of Letna Hill, where a mammoth statue of Stalin once overlooked the city. In Old Town Square, they even placed six antiaircraft guns by the Jan Hus monument, the symbol of Czechoslovakia's historic quest for liberty. Everywhere, paratroops in purple berets stood guard alongside tank crews in full battle dress, cradling automatic rifles in their laps. In swiftness of execution, the invasion had been a model military operation...
...fish can jump 4 ft. out of water and move overland at will. It sleeps during daylight hours but becomes "very active" at night or when it is disturbed. It is so strong and slippery that it is virtually impossible to handle. One specimen, placed in a 70-gal. tank with other fish, promptly attacked and killed a fish of equal size. "All other fish in the tank gave the Clarias a wide berth," the scientists noted, "a piranha being no exception...
What many of the current academic and think-tank plans recommend is a reconciliation in Viet Nam beginning at the very lowest levels: hamlet, village, province. This approach is variously described as federal, pluralistic or decentralized. Kahn bluntly calls it Balkanization. It would begin with what the Asia Society's Kenneth T. Young calls a "patchwork of local negotiations" in which warring Communists and non-Communists in a small area would come to terms, make their own local truces and work out their own modus vivendi for governing their localities. Viet Nam is in fact less a nation than...
...addition to Margin, the panel includes Sterling Patch, M.D., a congenital bureaucrat and head of the Bureau of Infantile Resources Potential, and Bert Rubble, director of a think tank called CEFALOPOD (Center for Attrition, Logistics, Policing and Deterrence). Rubble is by far the most amusing and terrifying character. A high-voltage action-intellectual wired into the highest power sources, he has written a book entitled Think Clear or Die. He wants to apply systems analysis and game theory to the national diaper rash; yet he has the touch of a hip nightclub comic: "I hate to break the news...