Word: tankerful
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...boosting production in other Mid-East fields and speeding worldwide refinery output, most of the West's deficit has already been replaced. The only way Iran could ship its oil to the Reds would be by tanker. As of the last count, Russia and satellites have exactly 23 of the world's 1,955 oceangoing tankers...
...very tip of the spearhead, cocky, harddriving, but an expert tanker, rides Staff Sergeant Steve Cochran, a Southern mountain boy who speaks as if his mouth were always full of grits and corn pone. The story, makes what it can out of Cochran's constant friction with his men, who are predictably slow to recognize his true worth...
Like most of its predecessors, The Tanks would have it appear that the branch of the service which concerns it, and its hero in particular, did the fighting that really won the war. At the climax, Tanker Cochran almost singlehanded drives a wedge through the Siegfried Line, which appears to be an area no deeper than the width of Sunset Boulevard. Amid such juvenile heroics, only the tanks look real, and they expend ammunition with an abandon which should horrify U.S. taxpayers and delight the shoot-'em-up enthusiasts for whom this low-caliber movie was tooled...
Uncle Horace was in Japan commanding a tanker when Mr. Hearst died. When he got back to Los Angeles in mid-September, he hurried to Marion's side and she asked him to move into her guest house. He did. Late one night last week, Uncle Horace and Marion decided to get married. They flew to Las Vegas, arriving at 3 in the morning, roused out a justice of the peace, and did so. At one point Marion, who knew the words, raced ahead of the justice and said, "Love, honor and obey . . ." Said the justice: "In Nevada...
...bang-up job on Melville Goodwin. It took a small-town druggist's son from Hallowell, N.H. and turned out an officer who seemed to be all guts and resourcefulness. Mel Goodwin proved that in two world wars, first as an infantryman and then as a tanker. Now he was fiftyish, a major general and still going up. But neither West Point nor combat had taught him how to cope with a civilian hazard like Dottie Peale. At 40, Dottie was a rich publisher's widow, beautifully preserved. She was out to land Mel Goodwin, and it wasn...