Word: tankful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...broken beer bottle. A man smashed his camera on the sidewalk when a flashbulb failed to fire. Eight nuns standing back from the curbside crowd waved their shy congratulations. Before the night ended, half a million Wisconsinites had cheered the champions, and 35 elbow-benders were in the drunk tank...
...from surrounding hills, whirls through a narrow gorge and widens to a rock-filled pool 100 ft. wide and 40 ft. deep. The ambassador was slightly worried; his best skin-diving equipment was still in Nantucket, where he had spent the summer. But he pulled on an ill-fitting tank of compressed air, a face mask with a broken strap, and stepped into the water. The mask leaked, and the water was so muddy that he "couldn't see the glass in front of my face." But on the sixth dive, groping through three feet...
...Tanks & Girdles. A big, busy factory is an easy subject for infra-red observation. Much subtler tricks are possible, such as tracing narrow roads through heavy forests. Military vehicles are hard to hide: a tank that has turned off a road to take cover under thick foliage sends heat waves that strike through the leaves, telling just where it is. Rivers show clearly : at night their surface water is generally warmer than the leaves of vegetation on their banks. Boats leave conspicuous wakes by mixing warm surface water with colder water from below...
...last week staged an impressive retrospective of 34 of his bronze, steel and iron works, plus a handful of paintings and drawings, covering some 20 years of production. After Andrew Carnduff Ritchie, Yale's new fine arts department head, looked over Smith's lacerating steel birds, ponderous tank totems and one creature of dubious charms compounded of salvaged auto fenders recast in bronze, he said: "Smith takes chances and he has the courage to fall flat on his face. He's the best-the oldest and the best...
...fall to smash the insurgent Gomulka -and found themselves encircled in Warsaw's Belvedere Palace by Gomulka's forces and compelled to agree to the Poles' demands. He was in the thick of the Hungarian action, where his slick manipulation was not enough: it took a tank-led invasion. The final repression was the Red army's idea, and at least once Marshal Zhukov showed himself relentless when the others hesitated. "We tried all we could to find another solution," Mikoyan said later to a Western diplomat. "I myself advised the acceptance of one Hungarian ultimatum...