Word: crack
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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There had not been time to order in Israel's crack antiterrorist squads. So the task of stopping the terrorists fell to some 30 traffic cops, armed only with .38 revolvers and UZI submachine guns. When the bus finally skidded into a ditch with all its tires flat, the police rushed it. Said Arza Tazor, 24, a passenger: "I remember police breaking the windows of the bus and telling us to jump. I jumped...
...protective tariffs and a maze of nontariff barriers ranging from quotas to stringent labeling requirements. One result: a GE refrigerator sells for $2,075 in Tokyo, compared with $1,289 in New York City. Little wonder, then, that many U.S. companies saw no point in even trying to crack the Japanese market...
...years, organized labor has tried everything it could think of to crack J.P. Stevens & Co. Inc., the nation's second largest textile maker and citadel of Sunbelt antiunionism. It has used direct organizing campaigns, protests to the National Labor Relations Board and the courts, demonstrations at annual meetings of Stevens stockholders and an attempted nationwide boycott of Stevens products. Nothing has worked. Now the Amalgamated Clothing and Textile Workers Union is trying a new pressure tactic: isolating Stevens from its friends in the business and financial community. Last week it won a victory of sorts by forcing two Stevens...
...answer this query, you must go beyond the slick, master-salesman style that characterizes the amiable former Notre Dame assistant coach and led one Boston columnist to crack that McLaughlin would have made a mint selling Arizona real estate...
...secret must be disclosed. John Wood is stupendous. He can crack a syllable like kindling across his tongue and start a bonfire of hilarity coursing through the house. He walks as if his legs were malingering splints. The theater as a metaphor for murder is the ironic undertheme of the play. It stands out in bold relief on Wood's face. Well, in popular U.S. mythology, are not the playwrights the victims and the critics the assassins? If you care to assassinate yourself with laughter, try Deathtrap...