Word: cracked
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Commercial category-also labeled the Impures or the Popularizers-is led by the Kingston Trio, which is probably the most scorched threesome since Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego. Humbly describing themselves only as "folk-oriented" singers, they crack jokes and sing songs that only vaguely resemble...
Peabody's do-good campaign alienated many Democratic professionals. But Volpe offended some voters by refusing to debate with Peabody, even though Peabody's ad-lib remarks frequently are confusing enough to prompt the crack: "He played football too long without a helmet...
Nothing Changed. Against reason, Menon insisted that India's real enemy was Pakistan, not Red China, and crack units of the Indian army were on idle garrison duty in Kashmir when the Chinese broke through the light defenses on the Himalayan border. He kept baiting the West as enthusiastically as he praised the Soviet Union, sure, as was Nehru, that if his Red Chinese friends should ever become troublesome, Moscow would keep them in line. The utter bankruptcy of this policy was demonstrated last week when ten Indian Air Force pilots returned emptyhanded from Russia, where they had been...
...your story "Making the Market" [Sept. 14], I emphatically disagree with your statement that Philips is "clearly worried lest the Common Market Executive in Brussels crack down too harshly on pricing agreements among European manufacturers." What we are worried about is the cracking down on big business in general with its effect on public opinion...
...crack at the British still is sure to wow the crowds. Last week, KANU's ambitious Secretary-General Tom Mboya, 32, rose at a rally to lash out at the government because it imported the Duke and Duchess of Kent to inaugurate Nairobi's new television station. "It's disgusting that they should open the center when Kenya has six million Africans with their own leaders," huffed Mboya. "All around us were white faces, and we were only little black specks on the scene...