Word: tankfuls
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...trucks, which can now be conveniently fitted with "pickup campers," that permit indoor comfort outdoors. Manufactured by nearly 1,000 different companies, they consist of self-contained housing units designed to fit into a truck bed. They have sleeping accommodations for as many as six, plus stove and water tank...
Both cities had been braced for trouble. "Ever since the Harlem riots," said Paterson Mayor Frank X. Graves Jr., 40, a tough ex-tank commander, "we've been on pins and needles." For three nights, angry mobs shattered store windows and clashed with helmeted riot cops. On Elizabeth's waterfront, center of the rioting there, 300 Negro youths scuffled with the police and with 100 white toughs...
...bakeries in Nicosia have closed down for lack of fuel. The wells supplying 3,000 Turkish Cypriots surrounded in Ktima are drying up, and a U.N. tank truck was barred from entering the town with emergency water supplies. In many parts of the island fruit and vegetables are rotting in the fields...
...laymen complain he thinks of nothing else. His capacity for work especially astonishes his doctor, since he suffers from asthma, emphysema, ulcers and migraine headaches, has had operations to remove a cancerous kidney and the prostate gland. He eats lightly ("I have to-I bleed"), sleeps with an oxygen tank beside his bed. "It is the wolf that keeps me on the go," he explains, "particularly the wolf at someone else's door...
...difference in the won-lost records of the two boats, there is even less in their design. Both were drawn by Scotland's David Boyd, 61, whose first twelve was Sceptre, and who is now a sadder but wiser man. Their hulls are the product of months of tank tests, are virtually identical...