Word: tankfuls
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Children poured into the playground and found two jet planes, a tank and three trolleys, an 1870 locomotive, a Coast Guard tug, an amphibious craft, a fire engine, a Marine obstacle course and a soapbox racing track. There were some old-fashioned things too-basketball courts, swings and seesaws...
...noise, grime and foul smells were generated by Joint Exercise Desert Strike, the biggest U.S. desert-warfare maneuver since General George Patton trained his tank forces in the same area in 1942 to prepare for the invasion of North Africa. Although considered a war "game," Desert Strike ran up costs that smacked of the real thing...
...exercise caused or contributed to the deaths of 33 men, including six in aircraft crashes, five by drowning, five in truck accidents, and two sleeping soldiers who were run over by a tank...
...crankcase. Nine laps later, Clark's left axle crumpled, and California's Parnelli Jones, 1963 winner, urged his Offy into the lead. But it was not Jones's day either: running low on fuel, he pulled into the pits. Somehow, a spark got into the fuel tank; the car burst into flame. Uniform smoldering, Jones leaped out and rolled on the ground; stretcher bearers carried...
Embassy officials in Moscow hold their really important talks in a specially constructed, supposedly bug-free "tank," or while strolling out in the open...