Word: cracked
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Finally, when and if all the rest has been achieved, complete abolition of nuclear weapons and military missiles, reduction of conventional troop forces to the level of local security forces, and establishment of an international armed police to crack down on treaty violators with force if necessary...
...world is Security Analyst Peter Gimbel, 32, husky, Yale-bred scion of the department-store family. As a boy, Gimbel sat on the bottom of his parents' pool with a five-gallon can over his head, gulping air from a garden hose. He grew up to become a crack ocean diver, swam on the first team to reach the Italian liner Andrea Doria, 42 fathoms down off Nantucket...
...craft and hit the beach on the Pacific coast of the U.S. Canal Zone. Just after sunup, a company of Brazilian paratroopers tumbled out of U.S. Air Force turboprop transports over the zone after a 500-mile flight from Bogotá, Colombia. Next came 1,175 men of the crack U.S. 82nd Airborne and a planeload of Colombian soldiers. Chilean and Peruvian F-80 jets joined U.S. F-100 Super Sabres to provide air support. For the first time, in "Exercise Banyan Tree II," Latin nations were joining the U.S. in a peacetime maneuver...
...fact, the only thing really worth seeing is Juliet Prowse, a young South African hoofer who puts some twinkle in the stub-toed choreography. And the only thing really worth hearing is the crack that Frank flips back at Juliet when she whips a redoubtable hip in his direction...
Although the Russians insist that their aid is offered without any strings attached, they crack the whip whenever it suits their purpose, e.g., "postponement"' of credits to Yugoslavia after the split with Marshal Tito. Often the terms of Red aid packages are such that underdeveloped nations are shortchanged. The Russians tacked artificially high price tags (in rubles) onto the goods they bartered in return for Egyptian cotton. Then they resold the cotton to West Germany, Switzerland and other regular Egyptian customers, at a 10% discount...