Word: cracked
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Mordor, for instance, who has already sent his dread black Ring-wraiths coursing through Middle-earth to seize it. The only hope for peace lies with poor Frodo. He must journey to the very heart of darkness, to Mount Doom in Mordor, and drop the ring into the volcanic Crack of Doom, there to be destroyed forever...
Administration officials said last week that Harvard will offer current faculty tenants first crack at purchasing the houses. According to Cambridge tax assessment records, all the homes are worth over $50,000, and some are worth upwards...
...trade. Some 20 similar organizations operate within West Germany. Like Aramco, many have advertised in newspapers, under the heading of "Family Reunification" or, more bluntly, Flucht helfer (Escape Helper). Lately they have become a center of controversy. East German authorities have pressured the West German government to crack down on the impresarios of escape. They claim that Fluchthelfer activities violate the spirit of detente and abuse the terms under which East Germany agreed to relax inspections on some major transit routes between the two Germanys. As a result, West German authorities are now threatening to prosecute the escape merchants...
...fair hearing from him. He has a nice sense of humor and was never curt-not that Prussian image. He would sit with his feet on the desk and talk ideas. But Haldeman-well, the public image is the correct one. I've never known him to crack a joke. I've never known him to seem relaxed...
...huffiness. Ziegler's programmed manner leaves little room for humor. Warren is more unbuttoned. Failing to hear a question from NBC Correspondent Richard Valeriani, he quipped: "Richard, will you speak in your on-the-air voice?" When he first began subbing for Ziegler, Warren would open with a crack at his own expense...