Word: tanked
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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Shortly after World War I began, Clement Attlee volunteered, fought in Gallipoli, Mesopotamia and France with the South Lancashire Regiment and Tank Corps, returned home four years later with a major's crowns, a D.S.O. and the scars of two severe wounds. He went back to Limehouse, and Charles Griffiths, his old army batman, went with him. Despite incessant attacks of dysentery, which Attlee had picked up during the war, he worked all day and many a night as well, speaking at meetings, getting the lads of Limehouse out of trouble and lending his kind, mild counsel to anyone...
Stable Door. In Maiden, Mass., police decided to keep a close eye on Charles Fauci's car after he reported the theft, within a month, of two hub caps, gas, the cap to the gas tank, more gas, a new gas tank cap, four door handles, the windshield, both headlights...
From that point on, the joke is obvious. Here is no seal clumsily tooting a trumpet and waving a flag in a sawdust ring, but a seal suddenly released into a tank of water -lithe, graceful, confident and effortless. Subtly and with never a false move, Carol's whole expressive body flows with the rhythm of the music. As she sings, every motive in Lorelei's predacious little soul becomes hilariously clear. At the end of her first chorus, both Carol and Lorelei Lee belong to the audience forever. What Author Loos wrote between the lines and accented...
...would require no U.S. expeditionary force to hold Formosa, the Joint Chiefs were assured. The Chinese themselves have enough arms & men to hold the fort: 250 planes and twelve well-equipped divisions (although lacking in some such items as tank ammunition) under V.M.I.-trained General...