Word: tanked
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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SPACE CENTER, Houston--A problem with a hydrogen tank aboard the Space Shuttle Discovery forced its astronauts to conserve energy yesterday and threatened to shorten the mission, but Mission Control said there was no threat to the crew...
...problem was an erratic pressure reading on one of three liquid hydrogen tanks. The tank was taken out of service while engineers studied the problem...
Stanford Daily reporter Jock Friedly presented The Crimson with his theory of the outcome of the Kennedy School dean search: Jeane L. Kirkpatrick will be appointed dean, and outgoing Dean Graham T. Allison '62 will head the Hoover Institute, a conservative think tank at Stanford. Kirkpatrick could not be reached for comment...
Polsky: "Just like all things in the world, Mike, my quotes have their time and place. One can't afford to be distracted by a Chaucer limerick or by a Byron verse when match point comes around. In a nutshell, Mike, let's leave those quotes for the tank...
...light to me as Richie Rich is to Pee Wee and freckles. At first, quoting was just a hobby. But it was really Dave who encouraged me to take it to a higher level. Actually, he paid out of his own pocket for more than half of my think tank. In a nutshell, thanks Dave...