Word: tankful
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...supplies tighten in many parts of the country, people are wondering where their next gallon is coming from. Motorists are cruising the streets in search of a place to top off their tanks. As a result, the nation's 117 million vehicles have become rolling reservoirs of gasoline, making the shortage worse. "I know I need only a quarter of a tank to fill up," said a housewife in Westchester County, N.Y., as she awaited her turn at the pump. "I feel guilty about it, but I can't help myself." For millions of Americans, happiness...
...full-tank syndrome is bringing out the worst in both buyers and sellers of that volatile fluid. When a motorist in Pittsburgh topped off his tank with only 110 worth and then tried to pay for it with a credit card, the pump attendant spat in his face. A driver in Bethel, Conn., and another in Neptune, N.J., last week escaped serious injury when their cars were demolished by passenger trains as they sat stubbornly in lines that stretched across railroad tracks. "These people are like animals foraging for food," says Don Jacobson, who runs an Amoco station in Miami...
...tanks!" he screamed, and began searching through the pockets of his overcoat. He pulled out a flashcard with a picture of a large tank. "I will make the French tanks kill them." Francois wears his overcoat in any kind of weather. It is a size 52, even though Francois is only five feet tall. Part of the extra cloth covers his hump. Another part gets pulled into a sagging pouch on all sides of him by his pockets, filled with symbols of the war somewhere in his past...
...without them. Even though there's no synchronised sound (prohibitively expensive) and parts of the picture are fuzzy and overexposed. Even though the plot of this thriller is completely incoherent, impossible to follow. Miscellaneous events: a shooting and a heroin deal, a chase and a knifing, a mammoth aquarium tank rupturing and some springtime kissy-kissy, a final plunge from the Lowell House Bell Tower into oblivion...
...purifying process, called Sonozone, practically eliminates that leftover pollution with a swift one-two punch. A small, vibrating metal disk at the bottom of a tank through which the sewage water flows sends out a steady stream of ultrasonic energy. At the same time, ozone, a highly active form of oxygen that readily combines with other materials, is bubbled into the tank from a nearby generator, which produces the gas by shooting electric arcs through ordinary...