Word: tanked
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Force will soon begin a pilot-training program in which women will fly C-130 Hercules hospital or weather-reconnaissance planes and T-39 trainer jets. The Air Force has women in fatigues maintaining and repairing missiles, airplanes and weapons. The Army has women chaplains, helicopter pilots and tank drivers and 136 drill instructors. The Navy has anti-submarine warfare technicians, line handlers on tugboats, airplane welders, bulldozer operators and a deep-sea diver. All recruits go through rugged basic training, learning to shoot and strip rifles (just in case they ever have to in an emergency) and slog through...
...host of a live TV special (The World of Magic), Henning will attempt Houdini's famous water-torture escape trick, a piece of submerged wizardry last performed by the master himself in the 1920s. With hands manacled and feet padlocked in stocks, Henning will descend headfirst into a tank of water. To break Houdini's record, he must escape within two minutes. If he wants to continue his TV career, he'll have just a bit more time. Says Doug: "I can only hold my breath for 2½ minutes...
Dead Stick. Launching the shuttle should be relatively easy. Fastened piggyback style to two 149-ft. boosters and a 154-ft. tank of liquid propellant, the ship will lift off from Cape Canaveral. After separation, the solid fuel boosters will be parachuted back into the ocean, to be picked up and reused. The liquid-propellant tank, jettisoned after sending the shuttle into orbit, will not be reused...
...should have realized. You don't seem a fool, like me. I've got seven." Jones sat on the edge of the tank...
...earned her such accolades as "the form divine" and "the diving Venus." In 1907 Kellerman shocked Boston by appearing at Revere Beach wearing a skirtless one-piece bathing suit and was promptly arrested for indecent exposure. On vaudeville stages in Europe and the U.S., Kellerman dived into a glass tank from heights of 75 ft.; she also starred in aquatic movies. In 1952 Kellerman's life story received a splashy MGM treatment in the film Million Dollar Mermaid, which featured Esther Williams and her wardrobe of 28 one-piece bathing suits...