Word: tankfuls
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...provides Jordan with a $25 million-a-year British subsidy, more than half the country's total revenue. (The British, realizing that subsidy is an ugly word for a proud young nation, would probably agree to pay the same amount for the right to maintain bases and a tank regiment in strategic Aqaba...
...cartoon of death. The sense of death-in-life is all the stronger for the author's calculated casualty-report style; the loss of a barrel of a machine gun has the same weight as the death of a crazed corporal who tries to mine a flame-throwing tank, and whose head "burned like a match." In the book's most telling episode, a captain goes mad when he is compelled to execute as a deserter a stunned and muddled laggard sergeant major who is trying to get back to his unit. Author Ledig, a twice-wounded veteran...
...ballyhoo begins: the buildup in the back country, the tank artists and local strongmen, the charm where it works and the arm when they ask for it, the planted puffs in the big metropolitan dailies, the careful suckering of suspicious reporters, the old rah-rah for the worthy causes. And then all at once the first big fight, and a piece of good luck that money couldn't buy: the ex-champ, punch-drunk from his last big beating, dies in the hospital after the big boy takes him-just as Ernie Schaaf died after his 1933 fight with...
...natives who came upon a deserted railway tank car near Durban last week recognized the lettering "alcohol" on the car, but the prefix "methyl" meant nothing to them. Agog with the prospect of a gay weekend, they drained off 22 gallons of methyl alcohol still in the bottom of the tank and carried it off in a big black drum to be mixed into home brew. But first they decided to have a quick taste all around...
...Wehrmacht Knew. The majority of the Gestapo's victims were Jews. But obedience to Hitler's perverted racial laws did not prevent cynical Gestapo bosses from trading thousands of Jewish lives for money or political advantages. In Poland and the Ukraine, where there were not enough tank ditches, and natural ravines were used to pack in the naked bodies of millions of massacred men, women and children, the SD Action Groups were full of self-pity for their exacting task. Crankshaw notes that volunteer groups from Lithuania and the Ukraine were only too ready to help...