Word: tanked
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Bruce K. MacLaury, 46, former president of the Minneapolis Federal Reserve Bank and a nominal Republican, who is now head of the Brookings Institution, the largely Democratic think tank...
Inevitably, the political situation is explosive, and the guerrillas' numbers and supporters are rapidly multiplying. Somoza lives in fear of his subjects and of the guerillas' dexterity. Tanks and barricades surround the dictator's urban ranch. When he goes out for dinner, his mess steward prepares his food beforehand lest someone attempt to poison him. Any area Somoza visits is literally placed under military siege several hours before his arrival, and he is protected by 200 bodyguards armed with Belgian automatic firearms and knives. When he makes a public speech, Somoza speaks from behind an enormous protective contraption referred...
...Lindbergh did not consider it unusual when he had to bail out for varied reasons: colliding with another plane in a sham combat attack over Texas; running out of fuel in a fog near Chicago when no one told him that his 120-gal. gasoline tank had been replaced with an 80-gal. tank; losing sight of the ground in a storm in those preradio years and finding his only field-illuminating flare had failed. He wrote that he had accepted his job as chief pilot on the St. Louis-Chicago mail route "with the understanding that each pilot...
...Soviets had been aiding Somalia ever since the early 1960s, helping to make it one of the best-armed nations in Africa, with a 22,000-man army, three MiG-equipped fighter squadrons and six tank battalions. Until the mid-1970s Ethiopia, under the late Emperor Haile Selassie, received substantial aid and arms from the U.S. But after the Emperor's overthrow in 1974 by a leftist junta, Addis Ababa's relations with the U.S. cooled. Despite their ties to Somalia, the Russians saw a chance to establish a presence in Ethiopia, which is almost ten times...
...centerpiece was Ustinov's military show. Along with the sight of thousands of troops marching to the music of 750 massed musicians, the audience, which included military attaches of Western embassies, was treated to the first public display of the Red Army's formidable new T-72 tank. Trailing a heavy blue cloud of exhaust fumes, 46 of the diesel-powered 40-ton machines roared through Red Square. One Western government observer's assessment: "A very businesslike-looking weapon." Already in service in East Germany and the Soviet Union...