Word: tankful
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...tank: a shallow pool with a cement strip, slides and oarlocks set in the center. A tank allows a crew to practice as a unit in the winter...
...their houses if a recession left them out of a job and unable to make payments. "The real irony will be if everyone's Rock of Gibraltar asset turns out to be a house of cards," says John Makin, a scholar at the American Enterprise Institute, a conservative think tank...
...Chicken power," says Ron Oest, exulting in his chicken house in northern New Mexico. "That's what keeps our winter water supply from freezing. See, they roost right under the tank." Up on the roost, two dozen hens ride out the winter, unwittingly warming a thousand gallons of mountain stream water stored in the black tank that bellies down from the ceiling. It is an efficient use of passive poultry energy, harnessed by a resourceful man who supports his family handsomely on $5,000 a year...
Sagdeyev increasingly found traditional Soviet science, influenced heavily by Communist Party politics, stifling. In 1961 he helped found Akademgorodok (Science City), an informal think tank located in the Siberian countryside, away from the intensely political atmosphere of Moscow. Sagdeyev was at first concerned about neglecting his research when he was asked to assume control of the struggling space-science program at IKI in 1973. The position offered a measure of independence (though hardly on a level enjoyed by top NASA scientists), but it was still part of the rigid Soviet scientific bureaucracy. Recalls Sagdeyev: "It meant a big change...
...Crimson was prepared for this game. The aquamen had practiced in the cozy confines of the Malkin Athletic Center pool rather than the expanses of Blodgett Pool to prepare for MIT's smaller-then-regulation 25-yard playing tank...