Word: tankful
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Lundy won his rebel's spurs honorably. An automatic-rifleman with Patton's Third Army, he was one of 16 out of a battalion of 360 to survive, ended up for eight months in an Army hospital with his left arm nearly shot off by a German tank. At Harvard's Graduate School of Design, after the war, studying with Walter Gropius and Marcel Breuer, Lundy began as the wildman of the class: "Everything came out that had been bottled up during the war," he explains. "I gave it the works. I splashed emotion and color...
Zeus's job is to store electricity gradually, as in a huge storage tank, and then spit it out as a short but enormously powerful jolt of energy. And Zeus is dangerous, a fact well known to every one of the electricians who swarm over it. The least of Zeus's bolts could burn them to a crisp. When Dr. Tom Putnam, physicist in charge, gets ready to ask Zeus to hurl a trial thunderbolt, he takes elaborate precautions. First he locks the monster in its room. Then he starts the "permissive chain" on the control board...
Finally the two experimenters hit upon the heart of the Aqua-Lung: a valve the size of an alarm clock, which lets highly compressed air escape from a tank until it balances the water pressure, then feeds it to the diver through a mouthpiece. One day in 1943 Cousteau posted Skindiver Frederic Dumas as a lifeguard, waddled out into the Mediterranean under the 50-Ib. Aqua-Lung, and realized his dream. He was free: "I experimented with all possible maneuvers-loops, somersaults and barrel rolls. I stood upside down on one finger and burst out laughing, a shrill, distorted laugh...
Missing Again. The vagrant MIG flew on to the nearby port city of Tandjung-priok, opened fire at the huge gas tank of the Stanvac Oil Co., missed the tank but wounded 14 people. Next, the plane swept over Bogor, 30 miles from Djakarta, made a strafing run at Sukarno's massive Bogor palace, and missed again. With its fuel exhausted, the MIG made a bellylanding in a West Java rice field. As the pilot, Lieut. Daniel Mauker, 28, looking dazed and shaken, stumbled from his Russian-made plane, he was seized...
Brazen Chariots, by Robert Crisp. The inferno of tank warfare has never been better described than in this book by a South African major in the British army who fought Rommel at Tobruk...