Word: cracked
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...yard dash is a must event for the Middles if they hope to have a crack at the championship. Kip Paskewich (6.2 seconds), John Sai, and Crimson runners Chris Ohiri (6.3 seconds) and Aggrey Awori appear to have a firm lock on the top four places...
...Crimson must win tonight and then beat Princeton and Yale next week if it hopes to have a crack at the Ivy title. It boosted its league record to 4-3 with a 6-5 overtime victory against Brown last Saturday, and has been idle since...
...politics in dead earnest. Though it is 45th among the states in population (606,921), its 400-member house of representatives is the fourth-largest in the English-speaking world (after Britain's Upper and Lower Chambers and the U.S. House), giving a remarkable number of people a crack at active roles in politics. In a sense, the house perpetuates the New England town meeting, and in that sort of atmosphere even the most attractive candidates are hard put to get a bandwagon rolling...
...Warner-Lambert acquisitions as DuBarry cosmetics and West Indies Bay toiletries. Warner-Lambert President Alfred E. Driscoll, two-term (1947-54) Governor of New Jersey, plans to move Smith's cough-drop marketing into his American Chicle division, which turns out Chiclets, Dentyne and Rolaids. Chicle's crack 500-man sales force is likely to give competitors a few sore throats...
...undercoating hard and fast. U.S. hopes ran high: at the last minute officials had reversed the seedings that determined starting positions, moved both Vermont's Billy Kidd, 20, and Colorado's Buddy Werner, 27, into the coveted first rank. The luck of the draw gave Kidd first crack at the 10,236-ft. course-and when he flashed past the finish line in 2 min. 21.82 sec., almost 1½ sec. better than the course record, American joy knew no bounds. But Germany's Ludwig Leitner clocked 2 min. 19.67 sec., and France's Leo Lacroix...