Word: tankful
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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They came up with a flashy-looking five-passenger convertible, a real jazzy-looking machine . . . They told me it would go 400 miles on one tank of water and they had a flash-firing system worked out where they could get up steam in less than half a minute ... I asked them how they solved the water problem and Burns said to me, "Well, we just made the whole body one big radiator, full of tubes...
...order to add to the group's misery, United Artists busied itself promoting the album by offering a free ride on a tank to anyone who bought the album in Los Angeles. The company also forced the group to appear in ridiculous 99-cent concerts in the Hollywood Bowl...
...their national hopes engendered hundreds of thousands of Arab refugees. In light of the familiar Nazi refrain, "We were only following orders," the Israeli public has become extremely sensitive to the preservation of individual humanity amid the exigencies of warfare: a furious controversy ensued when the Tank Corps established as its philosophy that there was to be no room for personal initiative, but rather in view of the technical knowledge demanded, one must follow the superior's order to the letter, without question. In curious contrast to the silence after the slaughter at My Lai, a full parliamentary commission...
...what is humanly possible, and we must act soon." Even the club members were startled by the computer's findings but were unable to raise any important objections to them. The study is now being polished and refined by Potomac Associates, a public policy "think tank" in Washington that will publish The Limits to Growth in March. After translating it into a dozen languages, the Club of Rome will use its influence to place Limits in the right hands, where its message may influence policy and stir public debate...
...sere plateau is now the focus of an encompassing controversy. The French army has a base there and wants to expand it by taking over 35,000 acres of the sparse pasture land. The generals argue that they will need room for tank maneuvers and artillery practice when French ground troops eventually quit their bases in Germany. An odd coalition of environmentalists, tourist associations and antimilitarists are up in arms. Last month, 6,000 demonstrators marched in the town of Millau in angry, if so far vain protest...