Word: tankful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Ballets that aim to be folksy stuff often manage to be coy, condescending, phony. But Fancy Free is as genuinely native as a buck-&-wing on a xylophone. Three bored sailors tank up and pursue three slick chicks. Some of the action is more like expert pantomime than dancing. The pantomime is often nearly as funny as that of the late great Joe Jackson, the Tramp Bicyclist. The dancing is superb -acrobatic, "specialty," rumba, softshoe, adagio, eccentric, jitterbugging, knee-drops, slapstick, and a violent, half-hidden free-for-all on the floor behind the bar. Fancy Free's success...
...Graveyard. One casualty of the revolt was U.S. popularity. While the fighting was still going on, Colonel Tito Calvo, a rebel leader, drove up to the U.S. Embassy in a tank. He asked for Ambassador Walter Thurston, pleaded the ancient right of asylum. Thurston correctly told him that the U.S. recognized no such right. After the Colonel was seized and shot, Salvadorians blamed the U.S. for his death...
...grenades, 36,000,000 pairs of goggles, 52,000,000 lb. of soap, 98,000,000 lb. of chemical-warfare defensive agents, 13,500,000,000 rounds of .30-and .50-caliber ammunition, 109,200.000 rolls of gauze bandage, 617,000,000 tablets of sulfadiazine, 20,000 75-mm. tank guns...
...struck close to Hans Hube. His son had been killed on the Eastern front; his daughter had died in an air raid on Berlin. He himself, the Reich's famed one-armed tank general, had barely managed to slip out of the Russians' reach on the hostile Ukrainian steppe...
...since 1901, and its Legislature has a standing offer of a $50,000 prize for the first commercial well. No one has collected yet, but Jersey Standard's big Texas subsidiary, Humble Oil, has struck oil at 11,626 ft. at an Atlantic Coast Line R.R. tank stop 28 miles north of Everglades City, and is hopefully drilling two more tests. Florida's county weeklies are having a field day announcing new leases, with the price for once near-worthless land up 150% from a year...