Word: tankfuls
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...have coined a new phrase-WJSV, which means WILLINGLY JESUS SUFFERED FOR VICTORY!" Then the choir, donning red caps marked with W, J, S or V, shouted out the letters in cheering-section style, and Elder Michaux with five assistants baptized 156 excited white-robed penitents in a tank behind home plate...
Soon jeeps and trucks, bulldozers and tank trucks were trundling up the rugged mountain roads. The Forest Service called in National Guardsmen and volunteer crews from prisons (including the "Stanislaus Hotshots" who fought twelve forest fires without a single convict trying a single escape). It flew in 225 Zuni and Hopi Indian fire fighters, mobilized in all 1,200 men from foresters to migrant fruit pickers. Crew bosses hustled them through smoke and heat to the fire line, 40 miles long...
Airport officials suddenly realized that the Auster, trimmed for flight and with a tank full of gas, might cause trouble. Sydney's Civil Aviation authorities were alerted. Radio warnings were broadcast, incoming airliners were warned, while police, firemen, ambulances and air force crash boats stood by. Tens of thousands of Sydneysiders came out to gape with delight as the plane climbed to 6,000 ft. and dipped seaward...
...whistle stops and the tank towns are behind him. He earned his crack at the light-heavyweight title and won it from Joey Maxim; he knocked off Bobo Olson (TIME, July 4) and won a shot at Rocky Marciano, the heavyweight champ. At 38, after 20 years in the ring, he is ready for that real fight...
Another Legion task force mopped up around Oued Zem. Under Colonel Fran-gois Boreill (who led the fine French battalion in Korea), 4,000 or more Legionnaires, supported by two tank companies, drew a tight steel net around the Smala tribal area. After two days of bitter fighting in the barren, rocky uplands, Boreill closed the net. Soon afterwards, he spotted a band of Berbers approaching his command post, waving white flags...