Word: tankful
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...army staged Black Africa's 27th coup d'état in little more than a decade. Random battles raged from Kampala, Uganda's lovely capital city in the hills beside Lake Victoria, to Gulu in the north. At the Entebbe International Airport, a rebel tank clanked up to the front door and fired a shell at the far wall; the target was a portrait of Obote, but three waiting passengers, including two Canadian priests, were killed by shrapnel...
...last U.S. flight to the moon, Apollo 13, was aborted in mid-mission when an oxygen tank exploded...
...prevent a recurrence of Apollo 13's troubles, NASA has drastically altered the design of Apollo's oxygen tanks, incorporating such safety features as stainless-steel-sheathed electrical wiring, heat regulators controlled by the astronauts, and external cutoff switches. In addition, NASA has added a third oxygen tank, a long-lived storage battery and extra water supplies as reserves for the command ship. Even Mission Control will profit from the $15 million safety overhaul. If any of Apollo 14's critical systems go awry, as did the defective oxygen tank in Apollo 13, loud beeping alarms will...
...million last year to fight pollution in its U.S. plants-accepted a consent decree from a U.S. district court. It agreed to stop pouring noxious wastes into the Hudson until its treatment facility starts operating later this year. Meantime, the Tarrytown plant will pump those effluents into railroad tank cars, then haul them to another treatment center...
...bathroom (TIME, May 6, 1966). During the first five minutes of a shower, he observed, the electrical field in his bathroom steadily built up in intensity. The effect was too small to present any danger, but that might not be so in the case of the million-cubic-foot tank of a supertanker. There, Pierce has calculated, the electrical charge could easily exceed 10,000 volts per meter after about 45 minutes of spraying...