Word: cracked
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...supervisors who were working in his department several years ago remain; the others suffered physical or mental breakdowns. "They slowly crack," the manager continues. "Eventually, enough is enough...
...office towers and luxury high-rises that have so dramatically changed San Francisco's skyline rock like ships in a storm. Inside, people are flung across rooms. Windows and walls crack. When power lines snap, lights go off and elevators abruptly stop, trapping hundreds of panicked office workers...
...brilliancies: his research is irreproachable, his ear infallible. His writing retains a clarity and fury that animates each line. The tribes of the Bible leap from the page; the victims of mass murder speak out after decades of silence. Immigrants to the New World, exiles of the U.S.S.R., crack jokes at the devil and embrace the present with a gusto that belies their wretched past...
...Delac, on his sweetheart's lap. Not to walk back to Peg's picking my way through the blackness with a load tread and louder whistle so Peg would hear me loud and clear and not blast me when, stepping onto his porch, his door popped open a crack and he stood naked in the glow, his hands hidden as I told him we'd be on his property a while longer, if it suited him. Briggs and I hadn't come to Pegleg Mac's to cruise his rutted road, the night's sweat dripping off the Delac...
...just how Youngs Drug Products Corp., the makers of Trojans, feel, so they were delighted last week to see KNTV reinstate their spots. For them, KNTV is a beacon of sorts. They hope local stations' acceptance will soften up the networks. Now it seems, resistance has begun to crack. This week station KJAN-TV in Canton, Ohio, will start running the ads. As for KNTV, it views its pioneering role with mixed feelings. Says Yearwood: "It's a hell of a claim to fame accepting the first rubber commercial...