Word: tanked
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...character, who has traveled back in time, walks past a 1950s-era filling station and is flabbergasted to see four cheery attendants in neatly pressed coveralls. Like a pit crew at the Indianapolis 500, they dash up to a car and proceed to fill the gas tank, check the oil, clean the windows and polish the chrome...
...council appropriated $2700 for the annualHarvard-Radcliffe Raft Race. This year's expandedevent will include a tug-o-war, an airband-lipsync contest, and a celebrity dunk tank...
...greasy spoon in Mojave, Calif., when Burt Rutan turned to his brother and asked, "How would you like to be the first person to fly around the world without stopping to refuel?" The idea seized the test pilot. Burt dashed off a rudimentary drawing of a flying fuel tank -- which is precisely what Voyager is -- and they were...
...walking over a low bridge spanning the freeway running below me. The bridge was stark and concrete, bracketed by deserted gas stations and a cylindrical fuel storage tank...
...policy analyst for the National Forum Foundation, a Washington-based conservative think-tank, said the panel was composed of a "rather closed circle of people" with liberal viewpoints and that the report issued Tuesday was a "foregone conclusion" with serious flaws...