Word: cracked
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Queen's tour gave Nkrumah a continued excuse to crack down on his opponents in the United Party. There is a growing feeling that Osagyefo's own Convention People's Party planned the outburst of bombings around Nkrumah's statue in Accra on the eve of the royal visit in order to justify the crackdown on the opposition. The reasoning is that United Party agents would have done the job completely and blasted the statue to smithereens, which would have been an ill omen in fetish-conscious Ghana; the fact that the statue was only damaged...
...will not find a crack in the Sino-Soviet union any more than you will find one in a duck's egg," said Red Chi nese Foreign Minister Chen Yi last July. Scarcely five months later, the duck's egg was cracked wide open. Hatched was an ugly little basilisk, confronting Moscow with a threat to its supremacy far graver than Yugoslavia's defection in 1948. The Soviet Union has the political muscle to keep most of the world's 81 Communist parties in line, and superior economic resources to offer poor nations willing to boost...
...force was alerted. Naval patrol boats growled offshore, and ground troops earmarked for the revolt-torn African colony of Angola were diverted to home duty instead. From the Mediterranean to the Atlantic-whipped northwestern frontier, police mounted a vast network of roadblocks known as "Operation Stop," ostensibly to crack down on auto thieves. Actual reason for the emergency: Strongman António de Oliveira Salazar's obsessive fear that maverick Henrique Galvâo, who stole the Santa Maria and world headlines in an eleven-day protest against the regime last January, plans a coup in Portugal itself...
...Durgapur job, Kuljian Corp. of India was on its way. Dutt, who works a 13-hour day, now has $153 million worth of contracts, has twice moved his offices into larger quarters. Unlike many Indian businessmen, who will hire only natives of their own state, Dutt has collected 50 crack engineers from Punjab, Bengal, Gujarat and Uttar Pradesh. Says he, in words that could have come from Harry Kuljian himself: "If you have the ability, Kuljian will...
...first TD at the end of the first quarter, moving with the variety of Vasell passes, Haggerty sweeps, Warren slants, and O'Connor bucks up the middle. On this drive, Vasell completed passes for 11 and 12 yards, and Haggerty racked up five to ten yards at a crack around right end. The TD came at 0:35 of the second quarter when O'Connor slanted off right tackle from the six. The run for two points failed...