Word: cracked
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Fool) and archly refuse to appear anywhere the cops can't guarantee protection from their fans. "I think we would have made it without our parents," says Dino Jr., "but not as quick." And who knows what lies in store after their voices crack...
...treatment of the whole episode in the Soviet press. Moscow papers have produced objective, detailed and horrified reports of the way the Chinese are running a Marxist revolution. "The Red Guards beat up a worker because he happened to be in a room where they found a crack in the frame of a portrait of Mao," reported Pravda last week. "They beat people with sticks, rifle butts, chairs and electric wires. One man was tortured a whole night. When he lost consciousness, they poured cold water over him, and kept torturing him until he died." Pravda also told...
...last month's nationwide Gallup poll. In February, Lyndon led Bobby by a comfortable 2 to 1 among Democrats. Six months later, the Democratic ratings were 40% for Bobby to 38% for Lyndon, and 38% to 24% among independents-a result that prompted Gadfly Bill Buckley's crack that the Kennedy clan must have purchased the Gallup poll...
...tend to look at the whole nation, look at the cities and think they are all the same. They are all different, and they have to be handled differently, and ours certainly has to be handled in a different way." As the end neared, Bobby Kennedy took a last crack at Yorty: "The mayor of Los Angeles I would like to have stay here through all of these hearings, and I think he could safely do so, because as I understand from your testimony, you have nothing to get back to." Answered Yorty: "That is sort of a ridiculous statement...
Higher education in Latin America gains world attention only when students riot, which they seem to do somewhere at least once a month, or when governments crack down on them. Lately, the schools in the news have been those of Argentina, where President Juan Carlos Ongania has attempted to curb the universities' tradition of freedom from government control...