Word: tanked
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...committed. There is considerable incentive for "Mike force" troopers. A private gets more monthly pay than a regular Vietnamese master sergeant ($58 v. $48). There is also the promise of booty money for captured Communist weapons: an AK-47 assault rifle brings $25, a 120-mm. mortar $200, a tank...
...rejection by white male classmates. "Off campus no place is really safe," says a young Negro journalist in Detroit. "When I have a white girl in my car, I don't stop at red lights, I make sure my car's in good condition with the gas tank full and a good spare. God forbid I should have to stop somewhere with a white girl...
...very magnitude of the Gaullist election victory made many Frenchmen apprehensive. "La mariee est trop belle (The bride is too beautiful)," mused one television commentator, meaning that so decisive a victory placed on the Gaullists an inescapable and unparalleled burden for France's future. "The Gaullist tank is more powerful than ever, but it no longer has any brakes," warned Temoignage Chretien (Christian Witness), a liberal Catholic weekly. "What a temptation for the driver to roll right over any opposition...
...mansion. There ensues a ludicrously erotic chess game, out of Mae West by Tom Jones, which Faye wins. After the check comes the mating, visualized in some lurid camerawork that focuses so long on the stars' lips that they come to resemble two kissing gouramis in a tank...
...cling to 60° slopes, climb over boulders and fallen timber, push its way through water, mud or snow. On less rigorous straightaways, it can whip along at speeds of up to 65 m.p.h. Built by Lockheed engineers as a high-performance, wheel-driven answer to the tank, the curious transport is fittingly called the Twister...