Word: crack
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...clock last Tuesday morning in Philadelphia, Virginia Delegate Thomas Jefferson looked out at the gray sky and then noted that his thermometer registered 70°. Soon afterward, there came a crack of lightning and a sudden deluge. By 9 o'clock, the city was awash. Nearly 50 delegates to the Second Continental Congress slowly filled the ground-floor meeting room of the State House on Walnut Street. They conversed quietly but kept a watchful eye on everyone who came through the door. The room steamed. The only consolation in keeping the windows closed against rain was that they also excluded...
...tightly stretched over a spokelike array of rattan or whalebone ribs; the ribs are attached by wires and hinges to a central rod so that the covering can be opened out or collapsed at will. It rarely works as planned. The ribs often lose elasticity when wet and crack when dried...
...Bicentennial attraction, the Liberty Bell, which has been moved from its traditional place inside Independence Hall to a site opposite on Independence Mall. A surprising number of tourists are astonished to learn that the bell does not ring, but they get to touch it, exclaim over its famous crack and listen to a lecture that tells its history...
Although students officially start Summer School today, it's more than likely that most people won't crack open their first book until sometime near the end of the week...
...leaders of the latest Humphrey-for-President movement, Erie County (Buffalo) Democratic Chief Joseph Crangle and Illinois Congressman Paul Simon. At 1:30 p.m., Humphrey showed them a withdrawal statement. Crangle and Simon asked him to tone it down, to keep the door open a crack. As the three men met, Humphrey got a phone call from unpredictable Jerry Brown. He wanted to join Humphrey in a ninth-inning drive to stop Carter. Humphrey turned him down. At 3 p.m., before TV cameras, Humphrey declared that since Carter "is virtually certain to be our party's nominee, I will...