Word: cracked
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...list prices mean little in discount houses, and even retail outlets have begun to crack color TV's long-held "$400 barrier." Sears, Roebuck recently reduced its 21-in. Silvertone sets from $449 to $388 and is selling them for as low as $365 in the hotly competitive Buffalo area. So far this year, Admiral has cut some prices by $95 (to a low of $399.95) and trimmed its charge for a year's service on color sets from $100 to $69.95, while quality-conscious Zenith has pared its lowest prices...
...American Shakespeare Festival, in opening its ninth season, has chosen its toughest nut to crack. Under Allen Fletcher's careful direction. Lear (only slightly trimmed) has emerged as a powerful theatrical experience. Despite its shortcomings, the production firmly gives the lie to those who maintain that Lear can exist only in a reader's imagination...
State ownership of industry-which Winston Churchill called that "burglar's jemmy to crack the capitalist crib" -is the goal most commonly associated with a Socialist administration. Tory scaremongers even claim that Labor already has a "shopping list" of 104 companies it plans to nationalize. However, after bitter argument the Labor Party has abandoned its longtime commitment to public ownership of the economy's "commanding heights." It plans now only to renationalize steel, which was partially restored to private enterprise by the Tories, and Britain's trucking industry...
Rambling Bunny Hop. Hefner's editorial is a rambling bunny hop through the fields of Puritanism and Prohibition, Freud and Free Love, Capitalism and Communism. But deep in his turgid rhetoric, he actually does take a crack at answering the charge of obscenity. "Who can define the word?" he asks. Lest anyone can, he adds the thought that "a serious school of scientific opinion believes that obscenity actually makes a valuable contribution to the mental health of society...
...mile mountain course, where the hills and unbanked curves are a supreme test for even the pros. For amateurs it amounts to suicide. Yet every year, on "Black Sunday"-the day before the pro races start-thousands of begoggled young maniacs tear around the course, hoping to crack a ton. The first casualty last week was a 19-year-old bank clerk from Epsom, who did not even pause to check into his hotel before he wheeled his bike onto the course; he hurtled into a stonewall and was killed instantly. Within 24 hours another amateur was dead...