Word: tankful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...women, oh, the women," sighed Tobacco Salesman Joseph White across his counter on Manhattan's Sixth Avenue. "They are piling into this cigaret shortage like a Sherman tank. Will they take these peculiar brands? . . . They will not. Fifteen or 20 bags of tobacco for rolling your own I sell every day. It used to be two. . . . Always there were a few women, sure, who chewed a little in a ladylike way. And in private. Now you wouldn't believe it. They sidle in here, wait till the counter is clear of customers, then ask for 'a sweet...
...fight to the last Hungarian, determined to make the romantic, sophisticated old capital another Aachen or Cherbourg. Refugees, food shortages and lack of bomb shelters had brought the city near to chaos. Pest, the section on the east bank of the Danube, was ordered evacuated. Pillboxes, barbed wire, tank obstacles blocked the streets...
...organization. Swedish reporters talked learnedly of a new German "rolling defense" fathered by Field Marshal Heinz Guderian, eastern front commander, now fully restored to Adolf Hitler's fitful favor. Already emplaced in whole provinces, enormous masses of movable concrete bunkers of eight to 15 tons, called "scorpions," formed "tank landscapes." Before them were six or eight zones of mine blockades including contact mines of glass, controlled mines fired by wire or radio. Enthroned in this system sat infantrymen with antitank rockets and guns...
...Only the tank commander, who had to teach his men not how to die but how to use tanks, seemed to hedge a bit. Said he: "Training before the enemy landing is more important than sacrifice after the enemy landing...
Solution. In Los Angeles, Alvin Meyers used up his last coupons for ten gallons of gas, drove nowhere with it because his four-year-old son filled up the rest of the tank with water and his father's bottle of vitamin pills...