Word: tanked
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...inspecting the new models in an auto showroom. Evincing much more interest than the representatives of the 60 other countries attending Britain's Aldershot exhibit of glittering military equipment last week, a six-member Chinese military delegation moved slowly from display to display. It intently studied the Chieftain tank, asked detailed questions about the Clansman tactical communications system and carefully examined dozens of examples from among the 10,000 other items of defense hardware being offered for sale...
...housewife as society's thankless foot soldier, engaged in countless small battles to preserve the family's besieged traditions and values. Despite her lightness and the overcuteness of her titles (I Lost Everything in the Post-Natal Depression, The Grass Is Always Greener over the Septic Tank), she can flash genuine annoyance at the many cons directed at her harried legions...
...been to the Aquarium and seen the ninety-gallon shark tank. You've followed the Freedom Trail to its natural conclusion and viewed the golden-grasshopper weathervane atop the Boston courthouse. You've even, in the course of your four years at Harvard, conscientiously gone to admire the glassflower exhibit at Peabody Museum...
YARIV / PEOPLE OF PURPOSE Thirty years ago, armor columns smashed a kibbutz in the Negev. The only surviving sign, which hung from the top of the ruined water tower, stated: NOT THE TANK WILL WIN -BUT THE HUMAN BEING...
...illness; in Moscow. A patriot who celebrated the "wrath of the Soviet people waging a struggle for humanity" (Second Symphony, 1943) and a Roman slave insurrection (the ballet Spartacus, 1953), Khachaturian won numerous Soviet prizes, returning one 50,000-ruble Stalin award during the war and asking that a tank be built with the money. From the start of his career in the 1930s, he also involved himself with Communist Party politics, eventually becoming deputy chairman of the Union of Soviet Composers. His political stature crumbled in 1948, however, when together with Composers Dmitri Shostakovich and Sergei Prokofiev...