Word: cracked
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...week long, behind closed doors, the President was preparing to meet a crisis in Berlin. There were long, unscheduled talks with White House and State Department advisers. Hoping somehow to crack Khrushchev's illusion that the West would not stand firm, the President explained his position to junketeering Journalist Aleksei Adzhubei, Khrushchev's son-in-law and editor of Izvestia. Said Kennedy: "I just want to make sure that you and your father-in-law have no doubts about our position in Berlin." Adzhubei promised to carry the message home to the Kremlin...
...statement of the President's aides that the new backache condition has no connection with his old ailment is ridiculous! It has as much truth as saying a fresh crack in the wall has no connection with a slowly settling foundation under the building...
...they nonetheless belong to the most ancienne of vagues-bad films. Cheaters is a solemn exercise in which Jacques Charrier, a pretty young man married to Brigitte Bardot, and some friends behave with what they fancy is abandon: they dig le jazz, say "so longue" to each other, and crack up cars. All that need be said of Cheaters is that toward the end of it, after a crackup, a surgeon utters that immemorial line from the U.S. Old Wave: "I'm sorry. There was nothing more we could...
...students from outside sunny Florida (biggest out-of-state delegation: New York, with 1,300) and had earned Miami its nickname of Suntan U. The administration hired tough, grey-haired Robert Johns, director of the Illinois Commission on Higher Education, as its executive vice president, told him to crack down on student saturnalias...
...wheeling and dealing last week could not give Senator Puyat the 60% of the convention vote needed for nomination. On the first ballot, Puyat got 487 votes to 375 for Finance Minister Dominador Aytona, 43, the energetic reformer whom Garcia brought into his administration to crack down on the more flagrant examples of corruption. Two hundred twenty-five votes went to Senator Quintin Paredes, a wealthy tobacco grower from northern Luzon...