Word: tanked
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...simple kidney and insulin-producing mechanisms that permit researchers to observe sugar changes. To obtain blood samples, the researchers prick each toadfish's tail. To collect urine, they attach balloons to the excretory ducts of the toadfish, let them swim around for several days in a briny tank, take the urine-filled balloons to the laboratories for study...
...guard feels indulgent. But anger remains. Sunny weekend weather brought a crowd of West Berlin youths to the border at Markgrafenstrasse. Some began throwing small paving stones at a Vopo water-cannon truck. The Vopos retaliated by firing a battering stream of water at the assailants-until a U.S. tank rumbled to the wall. The Vopo cannon's squirt quickly subsided into an embarrassed dribble...
Then out of the sky hurtled a French air force F-84F jet fighter. It sliced in two the cableway's traction line, losing a wing tank in the glancing blow, then soared out of the valley. The severed cable cracked like a whip. Three of the cars tumbled 500 ft. to earth, killing all six of their passengers. "They fell like ornaments from a Christmas tree," said one shaken observer. In the remaining cars, 81 other passengers dangled helpless in space. Mountain guides worked their way close enough to rope some of the passengers to safety. It took...
...parked with the gun's muzzle pointed directly across at the Reds. At Friedrichstrasse-the one entry point now open to non-Germans-a platoon of American infantrymen moved up directly to the border opposite a group of East German Vopos and a water-cannon truck; an M48 tank and two armored cars rumbled up and parked near...
Dahlias. Suddenly and surprisingly, Private McRacken sprinted ahead of the U.S. tank and ran 500 yds. down the exposed street to the bridge. German machine gunners and riflemen had clear shots at deadly range. McRacken slashed wildly at the white wires, then fell dead at the center of the bridge, his body across the disconnected lines, his clippers at his side. Dozens of Mayenne townfolk watched McRacken's dash and death from their windows, saw the Americans then speed across the bridge to rout the Germans out of town. Villagers stole out on the bridge, placed a white sheet...