Word: tankful
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Senate not only rejected proposed cuts in money for the new Trident missile-firing submarine, a new Army tank and a nuclear aircraft carrier, but added $495,500,000 for the Navy's F-14 fighter plane and $296 million for higher military pensions. In addition, it narrowly defeated a huge cut in U.S. forces stationed overseas...
...working arrangement with Elliot Blackstone, the police community relations officer who deals with homosexuals, not to carry firearms on his patrols, he does keep a shotgun in his office, which, he boasts, "will leave a hole in a man big enough to drive a s « tank through Georgia...
...their house before it was completed to their satisfaction. Once they had done so, the two city suckers could bring no pressure on the builder, who skimped as he pleased. The Plunketts were forced to pay $2,100 for an ecological sewer system and $800 for a septic tank that is still not working properly; they have been reduced to using a campsite toilet. At a cost of $1,200 they had to drill 170 feet to reach water; the flow from their well is a lethargic one gallon per minute. They were stunned to learn that they would have...
...built Rama and why remain a mystery, though the discovery of human-like artifacts encoded as 3-D blueprints in crystal columns suggests that Rama is some sort of vast ark in search of a new home. But in fact its only interest in the solar system is to tank up on the sun's hydrogen before rounding the next cosmic bend without so much as thank you. The probability that a vastly superior intelligence would be totally indifferent to man and his doings is indeed what Clarke is writing about. But the theme is a bit too thinly...
Such boycotts never make their way into the lofty discussions held by the FAS--the Faculty of Arts and Sciences--in its monthly University Hall meeting. Equally unconcerned are the scholars studying international economic development in the Center for International Affairs (CFIA) think-tank, which is located on Divinity...