Word: tankful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...line their traveling space with tar paper, to throw sniffing police dogs off the scent. They would need an escape hatch in the floor of the car, and a system of air vents to prevent suffocation. In case this failed to work, son Marian promised to provide a tank of oxygen from the lumberyard machine shop. During the next five months, while Marian checked him in daily on the lumberyard time clock, Bedrich Cech made four exploratory trips checking train times and routes at the Austrian border...
...alleys and from house to house, contesting every inch of the Red advance. On the third day, Dean manned a new 3.5-in. bazooka, which had been flown in from the U.S. hours earlier. He came back to his command post elated. "I just got me a Red tank," he shouted. He had got a lot more: a Medal of Honor for "excessive gallantry," and three precious days (his order from MacArthur called for a two-day stand, if possible) which may have spelled the difference between victory and defeat in South Korea...
Acts of heroism were common. One lieutenant won the Medal of Honor by ignoring a bullet-torn left hand and lobbing grenades into a Jap machine-gun nest till he knocked it out. With two more bullets in his chest, he mounted a U.S. tank and fired its antiaircraft gun into a second machine-gun position until still another bullet knocked him off the tank. He was back with his unit within a month...
Weekend Stampede. In 1940 Las Vegas was a scraggly tank town with a tumbleweed economy. But Las Vegas' happy proximity to Southern California and Nevada's benign climate for gambling combined to change all that. By 1953 the population had climbed from 8,400 to 43,000, and business had soared into the financial ionosphere...
...described as twice the size of a man, has green blood, and rules the planet Aphrodite. Gog is an aluminum, electronically controlled mechanical slave with five arms. He moves about on a treadmill like a tank, and, with a chum named Magog, works with atomic material...