Word: cracked
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Kissinger's openness. "Probably no secretary of state in history has had a closer relationship with the newsmen who cover him," diplomatic correspondent Bernard Gwertzman '57 wrote on March 4. "Newsmen are continually in contact with Mr. Kissinger. He likes to wander to the back of his aircraft to crack jokes and exchange impressions...
...tried to shift the eggs from one hand to another, I felt my hand go wet with goo. Again, in the calm state of shock at top speed, I began to observe what was happening. The eggs were bounding out both left and right. First the vibrations would crack the shell, then the wind would suck the omelet out. As we zinged past the telephone poles and around curves, I twisted my neck around to see what they were doing. It took each egg about a second to hit the ground, so there was a string of yolk...
...book's recounting of how in the mid-1960s the CIA helped Peru to quash an indigenous guerrilla movement. At the request of the government, headed by Fernando Belaunde Terry, the agency erected a miniature Fort Bragg in the heart of the Peruvian jungle and recruited a crack counterinsurgency team, which made short work of the guerrillas. Another passage reports that in 1969 the agency learned of a scheme by radicals to hijack a Brazilian airliner. The CIA kept the news to itself for fear that it would expose the agency's penetration of Brazilian Guerrilla Leader Carlos...
...James Morris seemed one of the least likely people on earth-possibly excepting Joe Namath-who would want to start life anew in a skirt. A brilliant writer, celebrated and comfortably off, he was the apparently happy father of four children. Morris had been an intelligence officer in a crack British cavalry regiment and a glamorous globetrotting correspondent. In 1953, for instance, he climbed 20,000 feet up Mount Everest with Sir Edmund Hillary's group and scooped the world for the Times of London...
...world the need for energy conservation. in part because at present exorbitant prices, roughly $11 per bbl. for crude, the world's consumers simply cannot afford to buy much more. Any big influx of Arab oil into world markets would almost inevitably produce a temporary oversupply that could crack prices...