Word: crack
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Department. Dr. John Foster, the Pentagon's director of research and engineering, has embarked on a controversial campaign to persuade Congress that the Soviets are bent not on slowing the arms race but on stealing a march. Last summer, says Foster, he and his staff were able to "crack the code" of the Soviet research budget. For the first time, they claimed, they could figure out-through estimates and conventional analysis-how much Russia spent on space and how much on military research. They discovered that since 1968 Moscow's military research budget has kept climbing-to around...
...Till the crack of doom...
...Crack the Whip. She practices her father's religion during business hours only. Whereas Carlo was a lifetime lira-pincher who often rode the trains third class and packed his own lunch, Anna lives the life of an empress after work. She maintains an 11th century palace, a hunting lodge and a sumptuous apartment, all crammed with priceless paintings. She keeps her figure trim, dresses elegantly, and entertains salons full of jet-setters and visiting royalty...
Harvard has decided to crack down in September on several charter flight organizations which are chartering for Harvard students without the written consent of the University...
Last February, Plainclothes Patrolman Frank Serpico and two other New York City policemen knocked at the door of a suspected Brooklyn heroin pusher. When the door opened a crack, Serpico shouldered his way in only to be met by a .22-cal. pistol slug crashing into his face. Somehow he survived, although there are still bullet fragments in his head, causing dizziness and permanent deafness in his left ear. Almost as painful is the suspicion that he, and perhaps his partners, may well have been set up for the shooting by other policemen. For Serpico, 35, has been waging...