Word: tankfuls
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...service soccer team to play European allstars) to the monumental (contingency plans for response to Communist aggression wherever it might occur). Such studies are presented to the Chiefs at meetings held three afternoons each week in a second-floor Pentagon room that is commonly known as "the Tank...
WORLD WITHOUT SUN. In this fascinating, full-color documentary by Oceanographer Jacques-Yves Cousteau (The Silent World) seven oceanauts spend a month in a manfish bowl, an underwater tank town full fathom five below the surface...
WORLD WITHOUT SUN. Seven oceanauts spend a month in an underwater tank town, and the result is an eerie, colorful documentary by Oceanographer Jacques-Yves Cousteau (The Silent World...
...earliest jet fighter during World War II. When Germany resumed aircraft and arms production in 1956, Bölkow lined up $306,000 in capital from a Hamburg banker, shifted his tiny Stuttgart engineering firm into the development of complete weapons systems. First came the Cobra, a tank-killer rocket that was adopted by the German army, was sold to Denmark and Italy, and got Bölkow into antitank and antiaircraft rocket research with France's Nord-Aviation. Bölkow today produces a popular helicopter trainer, two light sports airplanes, a glass-fiber glider, thrust-measuring devices...
...family's Danubian estate. His sleep of innocence is torn awake by the discovery of corruption all around him, including incest between his sister and oldest brother. Sebastian flees from home and enlists in the army to find "purity and heroism" in combat; he becomes a daredevil tank commander on the East ern Front as Rumania joins the Axis in the war against Russia. Again reality catches up with the dream, as he witnesses such atrocities as the poisoning of village wells by stuffing them with dead villagers, and the scorched-earth policy that the Germans learned from...