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Word: tankful (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...hosts indicated that they would hold future talks on military affairs, which signaled Washington's interest in creating an important new element in the strategic balance of power by linking U.S. and Chinese security interests. As a symbolic touch, Brown even posed in a Chinese-made T-59 tank...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Grain Becomes a Weapon | 1/21/1980 | See Source »

...threat elicits a wry smile from one of the two men. The other sneers. The camera shows President Carter speaking with utter gravity, but the two men can't discern what he is saying because the correspondent talks over the sound, paraphrasing the President's words. More beer. A tank's Red Star decal grumbles past the screen in telephoto proportions, and yet another correspondent reports that an estimated 10,000 Soviet troops are gathering on the Iranian border, within striking range of potential petroleum products that fetch more than a dollar a gallon on the street...

Author: By David A. Demilo, | Title: A Captive Audience | 1/18/1980 | See Source »

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