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Word: cracking (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...black students remained militant. Black student council representative Ricardo Millet said that when the police came to "evict the black students, they would have "to crack heads, and when they start to crack heads, we will fight them...

Author: By James C. Kitch, | Title: Building Taken by Blacks In Dispute With Brandeis | 1/9/1969 | See Source »

...have to organize among students to show the Deans that if they crack down hard on a relatively mild act, the demonstrators will have a lot of support," Alan Gilbert, a graduate student in Government, said last night...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Anti-ROTC Demonstrators Collect Signatures for Ad | 1/7/1969 | See Source »

...crack shot and avid hunter all his life, Yugoslavia's President Josip Broz Tito, 76, has obviously lost none of his skill, as evidenced by the bag of pheasants after a daylong shoot...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Dec. 27, 1968 | 12/27/1968 | See Source »

Their joy was short-lived. Brazil's military wasted no time in acting. General Siseno Sarmento, commander of the crack First Army based in Rio de Janeiro, conferred for 50 minutes with Costa e Silva and other military leaders at Laranjeiras, the President's Rio residence. Having failed to remove Alves by legal parliamentary procedures, they decided to do away with the procedures themselves. Costa e Silva, a former marshal, resisted briefly, then caved in-as he almost invariably has since succeeding another retired officer, Humberto Castello Branco, 22 months...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: CRACKDOWN IN BRAZIL | 12/20/1968 | See Source »

...gone in a minute, and I'll be free." But even as he thought these thoughts, the patient felt the dentist begin to push at the last tooth. Harder and harder the dentist pushed, as he had pushed before. Only this time something was wrong. The tooth did not crack. "Jesus!" the patient screamed in his mind. "Jesus, make it crack. For the love of God and Norman Mailer and all the greasy hamburgers eaten in all the dirty joints of this screwed-up, Christ-forsaken land, Jesus make it crack." The tooth cracked...

Author: By Nicholas Gagarin, | Title: Teeth | 12/18/1968 | See Source »

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