Word: cracked
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...cameras never showed). Yet in thelast 5 min., as Dallas led 17-14, Starr coolly, carefully marched his team 69 yds., then took the ball across himself in the final 16 sec. for the touchdown that earned the Packers nearly $10,000 a man and a crack at still another $15,000 in the Super Bowl...
...kept my eyes open, but the windows in the cab were rolled up. I began to feel for a handle-I felt and felt, holding my breath, until I noticed a little crack in the window. My partner was in the sleeping berth. He didn't have a chance for survival...
...funny thing happened on the 20th Century Limited. On its way to Chicago last week for its final run, the crack New York Central passenger express was delayed by a derailment up the track, wound up at its destination nine hours late. That is the way things have been going for trains recently and not just for real ones either. Toy electric trains, the very symbol of Christmas for generations of middle-class American boys, have gradually been losing customers...
...financial problem: the balance of payments. Aircraft make up the nation's second biggest export (after food), and the U.S. has sold $2.4 billion worth of commercial jets to foreign buyers. The SST market will be much richer-estimates run to $40 billion over 20 years. Hoping to crack it, the Soviets and a British-French consortium are already building SSTs, and the U.S. has to hustle to catch...
...debate the baton technique of leading conductors. Throughout Austria, everybody seems to be caught up in music, whether as a cultural pursuit, political issue, spectator sport, historical tradition or simple daily pleasure. Other countries may name their streets after composers, but Austria must be the only place where a crack train is called the Mozart Express, and where the national airline has planes called Beethoven, Schubert and Bruckner. Even affairs of state become insignificant next to the true national passion; today, the directorship of the Vienna State Opera is a post scarcely less prestigious than the presidency of the Republic...