Word: tankful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...eared little U.S. Senator filled the tank of his sleek, grey Cadillac and drove 1,000 miles to address the Legislature of his own State. Home to campaign-for 1946-was Mississippi's red-necktied Theodore Gilmore ("The Man") Bilbo, who boasts, at 66, that ladies still find him fascinating ("I don't expect to reach my prime until...
...Eighth Infantry and First Tank Armies wiped up between the Bug and the Dniester...
...much as a man could be, Konev was responsible for this miracle of a great offensive at mud-time. He produced it by turning to foot, man, and tank-power, by keeping his men on grueling marches few other armies could survive. His officers scoff: "The Fritzies are lost without their trucks; they want to ride-whether forward or backward...
...wrote a lengthy treatise on why his were better, and finally started to sell them in competition. Sometimes he invents for the fun of it, i.e., his butter slicer, or to keep his mind sharp. Once he was badly pinched for a special steel to fill an order for tank axles for an auto company. The company had steel, but warned Saffady that it did not meet the specifications. He bought the steel anyway, worked out a new method to process it, and sold the steel back-in axles...
...nearly ten years the burned and battered body of an unidentified, pajama-clad young woman lay in a tank of Formalin in Sydney University's Pathological Museum. When the streetcars rumbled past, she bobbed gently...