Word: tanked
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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They shatter a wine glass with a high pitch sound, use a ripple tank to demonstrate wave interactions and blast off across the lecture hall in a carbon dioxide-propelled rocket. Who are the people who perform these spectacular demonstrations during science lectures...
...Crimson emptied its tank trying to get that equalizer. It rediscovered the intensity of the first period and gave all it had in battling through checks to reach freshman goaltender Shawn Grant...
...military perform a total Saddamectomy? The idea is bubbling anew in Congress and among Bush Administration advisers who passed up the chance to remove the Iraqi dictator in 1991, when U.S. troops were in his neighborhood. But it's not a serious topic in the Pentagon tank, the top-secret meeting room in which the Joint Chiefs of Staff plot strategy. In fact, Marine General Anthony Zinni, who as chief of the U.S. Central Command would oversee any U.S.-led attack on Iraq, thinks it's a dubious scheme. "Saddam contained," he says, "is far better than an Iraq that...
...have also been examples of how half hearted support by the U.S. has, in some respects, been even worse than no support at all. Allawi's group, for instance, was nearly wiped out less than 18 months after that glorious hilltop night, when Saddam overran its camps with a tank offensive. Up to 2,000 fighters were captured and executed, leaving the survivors wondering why U.S. forces hadn't stepped...
...variety of fans crowded the smoke-drenched Paradise that night. The amount of white baseball caps rivaled the long peasant skirt supply. A B.C.-capped guy in a leather bomber jacket danced enthusiastically on a table beside--not with or against, but beside--two fair waifs in spaghetti-strap tank tops. Behind this reviewer on the balcony, the over-60 crowd bopped and hummed and probably missed Jerry Garcia a great deal...