Word: tankfuls
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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There was little time for formal prayer, however, in the cab of the Mail's locomotive as it rounded a bend 75 miles from Karachi at 60 m.p.h. Sprawled athwart the rails dead ahead were two tank cars, filled with gasoline, from a freight which had run off the track ten minutes earlier. Before the Mail's engineer could even slam on his brakes, the locomotive was plowing through the tank cars. An explosion rent the air, and the first two cars burst into flame like struck matches. A thick column of smoke boiled into...
Inside is a strange, ungainly object: the central half of a submarine. Its afterpart stands clear and showing its skin, like a dissected whale, but its forward part is enclosed in a big tank of water. The building is filled with a rushing sound. Men come and go, consulting complicated instruments. A crew of engine-room men work inside the submarine, checking and nursing its machinery just as if it were cruising under...
Decisive Events. West Germany has won this place at the council table despite the fact that it is still nominally an occupied country, and has yet to arm a single soldier, build a plane or roll out a tank...
...route of the Wise Men is today a deadly pilgrimage that winds through mine-strewn roads and olive groves. So on the morning before Christmas Eve, Jordan and Israeli soldiers, forgetting their hostility, carefully remove their own mines, and fill in their tank traps. Then together the hostile soldiers stretch hundreds of yards of white tape along the narrow, unlit road to guide the Christians. At dark, as the lights of the procession approach, waiting Israel and Jordanian armored cars turn on their searchlights and shout an official "Merry Christmas" to the caravan of dignitaries. From the groves of olive...
...Aboard. One day last month, using some faulty loadings in the past as an excuse, Boss Marian sent his workers home and announced that he personally was going to load the next flatcar. At dusk, carrying their drugged children, their tools, their tar paper, the oxygen tank, some food, water, and the inevitable bottle of slivovitz, Bedrich and his daughter-in-law Drahomira climbed into the space Marian had left in the lumber. Marian followed, pulling some boards over his head. As the train pulled out for Trieste, the men went to work lining their tiny stateroom with...