Word: tankfuls
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...just past 3 a.m. last week when the deafening roar of high explosive split the quiet moonlit night. The blast slammed the Greek tanker Eleftheroupolis against its pier near the Nha Be tank farm southeast of Saigon, Despite the constant allied watch on shipping along the entire 30-mile length of the Long Tau channel, which links Saigon and the sea, a Viet Cong frogman had attached a 100-lb. charge to the vessel's anchor chain. Damage was minor: one compartment was ruptured, but the jet fuel inside did not ignite...
...give it to him right away, he throws a temper tantrum." If Mother seeks medical help, the doctor is soon exasperated as the little monster upsets ashtrays, spins the examining stool, snaps the tongue depressors, and tries to grab the guppies in the fish tank. At such moments, says California's Dr. Daniel M. Martin, "it behooves the doctor to suppress that 'urge to kill' look in his eyes...
...King filled me in on his philosophy of life, his Negro attendant put the cap on my gas tank and closed the hood. King saw the chance for a little show. "Now you watch that nigger over there. Watch what he does...
...Detroit. Yet Warren has had a decreasing crime rate, and Bates observes: "We have no problems with hippies, yippies or zippies." George Wallace draws strong support in Warren. Among Negroes in the surrounding area, the word is out that to get a flat tire or an empty fuel tank in Warren or neighboring Dearborn is to run a serious risk of physical assault. In upper-income Grosse Pointe, a matron laments about the Detroit area: "This place is becoming a jungle." She is considering moving to California. In suburban Los Angeles, Morris Boswell, 52, a bulldozer operator, says that Wallace...
This summer a film about the Six Days War became very popular in Tel Aviv. Entitled Every Bastard A King, the show included scenes of tank battles in Sinai. A young Israeli soldier who had actually fought in the battles was commenting on how realistic the battle scenes in the movie were...