Word: tanked
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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Advance elements of the U.S. 7th Division could see the cold, hazy-blue mountains of Manchuria. This week, after capturing the crossroads town of Kapsan, the 7th pushed a tank-led spearhead all the way to the border. The G.I.s reached the south bank of the Yalu near Hyesanjin, a major Communist crossing point on the river's wide southerly bend...
Dashing across Austria with his tanks in the spring of 1945, ex-Cavalryman George S. Patton paused long enough to watch a prancing white stallion being put through some remarkable parade-ground paces. General Patton had heard the story of Vienna's famed Spanish Riding School and its Lipizzan* horses. Their classical routines went back to the 16th Century, their bloodlines to Spain and Arabia. When Patton learned that the Nazis had appropriated the Lipizzans and sent 200 mares and foals to a town in Czechoslovakia, he acted with characteristic dash. He sent a tank column to bring them...
...know. When they reach the speed of light with the stretching of space, they "just disappear." The mass of those that go "over the edge" of perception equals exactly the mass of the newly created hydrogen. In the same way, the water spilling out of a full tank equals the new water entering...
Late that afternoon tank radios came on the air from the ambush area, informed Division Headquarters that nearly 800 troopers were still holding out, trapped on a ridge near Unsan. Helicopters flew in to them, brought out 20 of the most seriously wounded. Twice, ist Cavalry Division reinforcements tried to break through to the trapped remnants, but each time the relief columns ran into "stonewall" resistance...
...Picasso's dove, featured in the Communist Stockholm petition, has been painted bright red. Under it are the words: "La colombe qui fait bourn!" (The dove that goes boom!). From the red bird's mouth dangles the olive branch, but its feet are the treads of a tank and its wings sprout guns...