Word: tankful
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...worse. They were concerned when Brandt chose as his Defense Minister Helmut Schmidt, then the party's Bundestag floor leader, who did not even want the job because it was regarded as a political graveyard. Concern turned to alarm when Schmidt created a McNamara-like think tank headed by Dr. Theo Sommer, 39, an intellectual and deputy editor of the highly regarded liberal weekly Die Zeit; to some military men, it was like turning John Kenneth Galbraith loose in the Pentagon. But the Bundeswehr has been pleasantly surprised, for Schmidt has brought to his job the same imagination...
...beyond, Tri has waded farther than ever into the shooting. A newsman who joined him on one recent foray was astonished when Tri ordered his helicopter to land virtually in the midst of a skirmish, then ignored vicious Communist rocket and machine-gun fire to walk to a tank and order the reluctant driver to attack. "Go fast, man!" Tri shouted. "Go fast...
...After six weeks of investigation, NASA's high-level review board proposed an explanation for the explosion of Apollo 13's oxygen tank. The blast was apparently caused by the failure of two thumbnail-sized automatic switches that are designed to shut off the oxygen tank's internal heater if its temperature rises above 80° F. Tests showed that the temperature, if unchecked, could soar as high as 1,000° and cause the electrical insulating material to flake off. The arcing that results can ignite the insulation. Heat from the fire expands the compressed semiliquid...
Well, preliminaries over, we climbed the steps to the top of the Big Tank. I thought of the leaping dolphins in Florida, and was glad that there would be no commercial leap-feeding here. Perhaps the most beautiful thing I have ever seen, however, was a sleeping porpoise, stout and rapturous, casefully undulating to the surface every hundred or so seconds for a long inspiration, eyes closed, a wry smile across his shout. As he ??tely traced his profound way up to the to of the sea and down to first deep shadows, rising, lowering, weaving the sea whole...
...squid and a sperm whale battle chthonically and monumentally for the dominion of the oceans. The whale and squid engage and storm, the water froths and crupts in thundering contest-the spectators are driven back in awe and terror-the whale blasts away the roof, the squid uproots the Tank itself-the whale leaps up and down like a diving world, stunning the horrendous squid, who tires, submits, and is vanquished! In celebration of his victory the whale cannons his ghastly ordinance over the far edge of the earth, like the limbs of Osiris. As it was, the Big Tank...