Word: cracked
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Reston is usually where the best story is. A crack reporter, a good writer, a thoughtful columnist, and an able administrative chief of the biggest newspaper bureau (23 staffers) in Washington, he brings to his job a sober, Calvinistic sense of responsibility. He has never had a private audience with President Eisenhower (or with any other U.S. President), but that does not mean that Presidents are unaware of him. "Who does Scotty Reston think he is," Ike once complained, "telling me how to run the country...
Fully Equipped. Near Dayton, burglars broke into the Handyman Do-It-Yourself Center, used tools from the available kits to crack a safe and steal...
...bringing troops from the interior . . . All meetings of more than three people are forbidden." But it soon became clear that if a meeting of three people was illegal, a crowd of 20,000 was unstoppable. Next day the hastily built and ill-manned barricades were surrounded by crack regiments of paratroops and Foreign Legionnaires. But the paratroops in their red and green berets merely patrolled, did nothing to interfere with well-wishers who brought food, drink, munitions and weapons to the insurgents. From several hundred, the defenders of the barricades grew to several thousand, and by nightfall they were turning...
...rich-quick operators swarmed into the field, advertising directly to eyeglass wearers through the lay press and classified telephone directories. Appealing to feminine vanity and masculine athletic aspirations, they claimed that famous actresses and sports champions were wearing them. In an uphill fight to crack down on these fringe operators, the Federal Trade Commission found most of these claims untrue. Also untrue: claims of "continual comfortable wear," "wear them up to six months without removing," "never irritating," "unbreakable," "cannot damage the eye," "provide better vision than other eyeglasses," "protect the eyes in all active sports." The FTC has forced several...
...cannon that fires at the rate of 6,000 rounds per minute and a bomb bay packing a heavier load, either conventional or nuclear, than a World War II B-17 bomber. Since the Thunderchief can carry either an H-bomb or Abomb, it can take a crack at the biggest and most important targets...