Word: tankful
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...explained exactly how it happened, but a tank of toxic chlorine gas emptied itself into the Indoor Athletic Building (IAB) Monday morning, sending 34 people to the hospital...
After rescuers gave several differing descriptions of why the gas leaked from a transmission line leading to the IAB pool, University officials announced Tuesday that the incident occurred during a routine tank-changing procedure...
...birth occurred last month in a 50,000-gal. tank at the New York Aquarium, just off the boardwalk at Brooklyn's Coney Island. Both parents are performing belugas that regularly entertain visitors with such antics as retrieving objects and bussing their keepers. Because of their intelligence, size and docility, belugas (their name means white in Russian) have long been a favorite of aquariums and aquatic shows. At least three other baby belugas have been born in captivity, but none survived longer than a few weeks...
...began an obsession that ended last week when a ship's rusty safe was consigned to the shark tank of the New York Aquarium. Twenty-five years ago, on July 26, 1956, only eleven hours after colliding with the Swedish liner Stockholm, the Andrea Doria, flagship of the Italian Line, sank some 250 ft. down to the continental shelf. Fifty lives were lost. The next day Department Store Heir Peter Gimbel, then 28, went chugging out to sea looking for the buoy that marked the Andrea Doria 's grave about 50 miles south of Nantucket. Gimbel dove through...
...post of chief of staff, he resigned from the army in 1973 to seek a political career. When his reserve unit was activated during the October 1973 war, he saved the day for Israel by leading a task force to attack the Egyptian Second Army, helping to bring Israeli tank columns to within 63 miles of Cairo...