Word: crack
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...washy" image he picked up last spring but also contradicts an earlier Nader study-group report that accused Muskie of foot dragging on environmental issues. This time around, Nader's researcher gave "Mr. Clean" high marks on environment and almost everything else. He is, the report notes, "a crack prosecuting attorney" possessed of "native intelligence," courage and an ability to weave a kind of seamless web out of seemingly inharmonious strands of ideas." It does rap an occasional knuckle-charging Muskie with naiveté on the war, for instance-but it restores much of the Honest Abe image Muskie...
...until this point, McGovern's most glaring weakness had been has inability to draw a substantial share of the black vote. Eventhough he won in Wisconsin, he was unable to crack Humphrey's hold on Milwaukee's black wards. Although this did not make a critical difference in the Western primary McGovern's inability to reach the black vote promised to present more of a problem in the upcoming primaries in states where the black population was large enough to swing the election. In fact the problem of McGovern`s poor relationship with black voters and pol`s was thrown...
Reservation strikes a blow for unliberated womanhood. Eva Marie is converted from "doing her own thing" to housewifedom and motherhood after some heavy petting with Hope, who manages to extricate them both from imprisonment in a cave. To do this, he shoots a signal out of a crack in the rocks with a homemade bow crafted from a handy branch and Eva Marie's leopard-skin brassiere. "I'm certainly glad I didn't burn my bra," coos Eva Marie. This sort of sniggering sitcom stuff belongs more prop erly on television, the celluloid burial ground...
...rising productivity and tough controls to hold inflation down. Republicans reply that controls are ineffective against the type of inflation that results from excess demand fueled by giant budget deficits. But Washington could make at least one move to distribute the burden of unemployment more evenly. It could crack down harder on job discrimination based on race...
Connecticut-Yale: The Flis who've been having offensive problems for the past couple of campaigns will be unveiling a new offense which should bother both teams a bit. But the wishbone looked strong against Dartmouth in last Saturday's scrimmage and should crack the Huskies to the tune...