Word: cracked
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...celebration of Fidel Castro's rise to power might have taken place in Moscow's Red Square. Mounting his own version of Lenin's tomb-the José Marti monument in Havana's Plaza de la Revolucion-Castro and his Cuban commissars proudly reviewed the crack units of a Communist-trained, Communist-supplied military machine that is bigger than that of any Western Hemisphere country except...
...Contemporary artists hold few places in higher esteem than the Albright Art Gallery. And there are few men for whom the dealers of Manhattan. Paris or London have more respect than its principal patron, Seymour H. Knox, 63. A small (5 ft. 5 in.), peppery man who is a crack polo and court tennis player as well as a director of six major companies (Marine Midland Trust Co., F. W. Woolworth), Knox is a born enthusiast-and his chief enthusiasm is modern...
...drama of destalinization moved into the theater last week. A new Moscow play pitted a Stalin-trained secret police heavy ("Give me this Leontyev, and in two weeks he will crack like a nut") against a clean-cut hero cop who ringingly denounces the Stalinists: "They are not tormented by their conscience. They never...
...Paget set fire to some gunpowder in the house where she was sleeping. In the tumult that followed, he managed to whisk her off to a nearby hayloft. The war with Napoleon was just what Paget's exuberant spirits needed, and he whipped the British cavalry into a crack fighting force. He was watching his men smash the French at Waterloo, standing next to the Duke of Wellington, when he was hit. "By God, sir, I've lost my leg," he exclaimed, according to legend. Wellington lowered his telescope and replied, "By God, sir, so you have...
Seeds of Battle. To crack Europe's rich markets, U.S. business has sprouted more than 800 branches in the Common Market nations since 1958. This investment in Europe-which in 1961 alone will total $700 million-has paid the U.S. rich dividends in the form of repatriated profits. But unless it is accompanied by a substantial increase in U.S. exports, a continued surge in U.S. investment in Europe could add dangerously to the drain on U.S. gold stocks, now down to a 22-year low of less than $17 billion...