Word: tankful
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...undefeated Missouri, rugged End Danny LaRose (6ft. 4 in., 220 Ibs.) crashes into the enemy backfield like a runaway tank: "I like to rack the punter. If the fullback tries to block you by going for your legs, run over him the first time. He'll shy away after that." Following an impressive sophomore year, LaRose had a bad season as a junior ("The publicity went to my head"), has rallied this season to become a prime prospect for the pros. In Missouri's 21-8 victory over Penn State, LaRose recovered two fumbles, batted down key passes...
...around them. The system they use is not well understood, but it is known that one kind of fish can detect a current of two one-hundred-billionths of an ampere per square centimeter of its body. Its electronic sensing permits it to discriminate between glass rods in its tank that differ in diameter by less than one-tenth of an inch. Study of these talented fish could pay off richly in electronic ideas...
...Chinese tank crushes Ladd's leg, and guess whose blood sustains him during an amputation? There is barely time for a scene heavy with symbolism, as Racist Richards queasily watches the corpuscles flow from Poitier to Ladd. Then the Chinese attack in force. Poitier shoos his men and Actress St. Clair out the back door of the farmhouse. Refusing to leave Ladd, he grasps a BAR and stands off the baddies until his bullets...
...stock a sophisticated physics laboratory. To test how the jolts, noises and vibrations of railroad travel will affect the warheaded Minuteman, sensitive oscilloscopes and oscillographs registered every rock and wriggle. Loudspeakers and telephones linked the communications HQ with the other ten cars (one boxcar that housed a jeep, two tank cars for water and diesel fuel, seven air-conditioned "quarters cars"-including one with stereo set, radio, TV). When the train stopped, crewmen stepped out and limbered up, but could wander no farther than 150 yards-earshot range. A sharp command from the single "exit-entrance" brought them scrambling back...
...Atlas-like bodies and shriveled souls. The American people are fiddling and playing around while the world burns and crumbles down around them . . . Life can be sweet, smooth and sassy, like our modern cars, but if we have lost the key, or if there is no fuel in the tank, we can't go any place . . . Like an aircraft in a storm, we have lost contact with the control tower; we are circling, ever circling, with our moral visibility zero...