Word: tankfuls
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...chairman intends to stick around to oversee that growth too. His undiminished vigor is evident to anyone visiting Oak Brook headquarters where the offices are open cubicles and Kroc's shouting rings through them all (executives who need some peace and quiet retire to an elaborate "think tank" equipped with a 700-gal. waterbed...
...aggressors" -60 of whom had succeeded in capturing two-thirds of Company M. But, like a desert phoenix, Company M had risen with the sun and was ready to move north toward Yermo. "Come on, men," urged Staff Sergeant Greg Anderson, 31, as he climbed aboard his tank. "We're out here to get practice so we can grab...
...West Berlin from East Germany. At last count, it included 242 watchtowers, 137 bunkers, 249 dog patrols, some 65 miles of concrete wall and 35 miles of chain-link fencing, as well as assorted electronic-surveillance devices, lO-ft.-deep trenches and triple-pronged concrete pylons similar to the tank traps of World...
Controllers quickly determined the cause of the symptoms: a line from the tank containing the oxidizer necessary to fire the thrusters had apparently sprung a leak. That mishap-coupled with the earlier loss of oxidizer from a unit in one of the other four-nozzle clusters when a valve jammed during rendezvous with Skylab-left the ferry craft with part of its attitude control system not working. For several nerve-racking hours last week, NASA officials contemplated bringing the second crew of Skylab astronauts home immediately, lest any further deterioration in the Apollo rocket control system jeopardize their chances...
...followed a regular pattern, I thought they were a result of more blasting for Santiago's new subway system. But then I heard the unmistakable rattle of machine-gun fire. From the twelfth-floor window of my hotel room (which directly overlooks Moneda Palace), I saw a tank parked across Constitution Square. It had crawled up to within a few feet of the palace and trained its cannon on the steel door. Then a more lightly armored weapons carrier joined it. Wearing army uniforms, the crews dismounted and stood behind their vehicles, intently scanning the buildings around the square...