Word: tanked
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Dale R. Tahtinen, 33, is assistant director of foreign and defense policy studies at the American Enterprise Institute, a conservative-oriented think tank in Washington. Though basically a conservative himself, he long opposed massive U.S. support for the Shah of Iran...
...location was his "bucket of gold at the end of the rainbow." Lee pooh-poohed the missives as the kind of thing fellas tend to write. If measuring love was like a fuel gauge, he said gallantly, his feelings for Michelle never got above "half a tank...
Since October, the Tanzanians have shot down 18 of Amin's 26 combat aircraft, and in one recent week captured a Soviet T-55 tank, seven armored cars and other equipment. Some Ugandan army units based at Masaka and nearby Mbarara are reported to be in rebellion. Says a Western diplomat in Nairobi, capital of neighboring Kenya: "It looks as if Amin has abandoned all of southern Uganda...
...which had been massed along the Vietnamese border since Hanoi's invasion of Cambodia, had poured into Viet Nam at several points along their joint frontier. Hanoi charged that before the predawn attack, the Chinese had softened up the Vietnamese with long-range artillery, followed by infantry and tank assaults. By the end of the day, Chinese forces had advanced as much as six miles into Vietnamese territory...
Ford has been hit with more than 50 civil lawsuits charging negligence in placing the Pinto's gas tank far in the back of the car, where it is vulnerable to rear-end collision damage. In June 1978, Ford announced the recall of 1.5 million Pintos built between 1971 and 1976 to remedy this defect, which does not exist in later models. But the Indiana case is the first in which Ford-or any automaker-has been charged with a criminal offense...