Word: cracking
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...battle's ironies is that Daley himself has done as much as anyone else to smear his own police department. At the confrontation in front of the Conrad Hilton, only a few dozen cops broke ranks to crack the head of any civilian they could lay a club on. But Daley defends those who violated discipline. In doing so, he damns the entire department...
...state has a relatively simple organization to crack," said one McCarthy operative. The McCarthyites were brutally put down in party caucuses last summer and they are mad. They are mad enough to form a Washington Democratic Council (WDC) along the lines of the CDC to try to take over the party. "A lot of people are determined to stick around the party and do some homework; the only real question is how easy it is to change the people into long-term politicians," Ed Voris said, a Seattle McCarthyite...
...launch into their wail ing finale, My Generation ("I hope I die before I get old"), strange things do begin to happen. Clunk! Lead Singer Roger Daltrey flings the microphone to the floor, wheels around and begins flailing at the drums played by Keith Moon. Crack! Peter Townshend breaks his guitar against the stage, jumps on it, then splinters it against a speaker cabinet. Crash! John Entwistle heaves his bass away and joins the others in a savage orgy of kicking and pushing at the loudspeakers, the drums and the mike stand...
After almost an hour of such persuasion, Dr. Pone got Mitchell to open the door a crack and accept a bottle of milk for the child. The psychology was working. Soon, Mitchell meekly opened the door of his cubicle, put his pistol in Pone's hand and emerged with the unharmed child in his arms...
...average. Denny insists that he was really better than that. "I went to school like I pitch," he says. "I am as good as I want to be. I could study 20 minutes and pass a test. Or I could pass without studying. I'll bet I didn't crack twelve books in four years...