Word: tankfuls
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...bombed a sugarmill in Camaguey province. Three nights later, the Castro government complained, a lone bomber, lights out and engines feathered, coasted over the southern coastal town of Casilda. Parachuting a yellow flare to light up the target, it launched three rockets at the town's oil storage tanks, setting fire to a railroad tank car. In another night attack, two landing craft slipped up the Santa Lucia estuary to the heavily guarded Patricio Lumumba metal-processing plant. A raiding party scrambled ashore, took careful aim, and laid down a barrage of bazooka shells. When militiamen returned fire...
...expert, Ichthyologist Herbert Axelrod, puts the proper aquarium proportion at two gallons of salt water to an inch of fish-a limit of five 2-in. fish in a 20-gal. tank. Sea horses-such improbable creatures that many people think them mythical-are less active and need less tank space; so slow are they, in fact, that they must be segregated from most other fish, or they will starve to death...
...will suck dust into a thin-lipped opening in the multivator's base. As the dust filters through the multivator's 15 tiny chambers, it will stick to their adhesive-coated walls. Then the chambers will be automatically sealed and filled with water from a small external tank...
...began perfecting his phone while working on mechanical vibration problems in U.S. Navy missiles, and he is sure the technique can be put to wider use for remote control of dangerous crop-dusting planes, and in military communication systems, where loud, continuous noise often makes virtual deaf-mutes of tank crews and gun captains by masking the sound of spoken orders...
...skindiving student had surfaced rapidly from the bottom of a 14-ft. training tank in Seattle, and despite his training, he had evidently held his breath all the way up. Within seconds, he was half unconscious, and his left side was paralyzed. The instructor and his diving comrades rushed the victim to General Practitioner Charles A. Kruse, who had two important qualifications for handling the case: his of fice was near by, and he is an enthusiastic skindiver himself...