Word: tankful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Gloves, and then wished he had not, defected once again. ''Intervention [in Hungary] was a crime," he cried in a four-page protest in the anti-Communist L'Express. "The Red Army fired on an entire people. And the crime for me is not only the tank attack on Budapest. It is also that it was rendered possible by twelve-years of terror and stupidity. I condemn entirely and without reserve the Soviet aggression...
Corpses on the Bridges. As soon as Russia switched to violent repression, a thousand tanks had rumbled into the city and at every cross street they were drawn up with their backs to each other in protective circles, each tank able to fire down a different street. Batteries of heavy Soviet artillery were set up on Gellert Hill, and H.E. shells were poured into buildings where resistance was spotted. But the rebels were not without resource. Said Gyula Petoki, who escaped: "During World War II the Germans had made doors in cellars between houses so that people could move around...
...time Moshe Dayan's six days were over, he and his men had chewed up about one-fourth of Nasser's army: two infantry divisions, one armored brigade and many smaller units, including several independent tank companies. At an acknowledged cost of less than 800 casualties, including 150 dead, the Israelis claimed to have killed 3,000 Egyptians, captured 7,000 more and destroyed twelve Egyptian jets. What impressed them most of all, however, was the booty they collected: more than 100 tanks (many of them heavy Soviet T-34s). nearly 200 artillery pieces, small arms...
...steep sand dune seven miles east of the Suez Canal, sun-blackened members of D Company, 52nd Israeli Armored Battalion squatted under a tank's camouflage netting listening to a radio. "Well, it's all over," said one at Tel Aviv's report of a cease-fire halting their Sinai blitz. "We should have finished Nasser off," said a second. "He's finished already," said a third tankist. "At last we've won a real victory and now we'll get a real peace...
...free man, sat alone at dinner. People in the area knew the house as an atomic-research station of some mysterious sort: that was the explanation the Communists had given for the heavy armed guard that surrounded it. Mindszenty's guards paced about uneasily, and a Russian tank stood near by. Suddenly, out of the darkness a small band of young revolutionaries appeared, brandishing machine guns. Before their gun barrels, Mindszenty's guards quickly surrendered. The liberators broke in upon the surprised cardinal. With tear-filled eyes he said: "You are good Hungarian boys...