Word: cracking
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...excellent, especially in his physical gestures. At one point, he strokes his dead wife's picture as tenderly as if he were touching the woman herself--then jerks his hand away to hide the private gesture from his brother. Whether indulging in outrageous facial clowning, or making his voice crack with pain, Orbach's performance is perfectly controlled...
...made some crack about exorbitant scalpers, but the fact remained: women's hockey doesn't get much attention. Nevertheless, Harvard's skaters, who outnumber spectators at most games and have more trouble finding good ice time than Pierre Larouche, have worked diligently to make their first year as a team successful and had high hopes for last weekend's tourney...
...with which the Marxists moved last week raised serious questions about the ability of Khomeini and Bazargan to hold on to the reins of revolution. When armed units of the two forces clashed during the assault on the American embassy, the split seemed as loud and decisive as the crack of a Kalashnikov rifle...
...army's surrender to the revolution signaled not truce but further bloodshed. On the next day, Khomeini forces attacked the Lavizan barracks in northeastern Tehran, home of the crack Javidan guards, killing the commander and many of his troops. Using acetylene torches, the attackers cut their way through electrically locked doors to free prisoners at Evin, a jail run by the hated SAVAK secret police. There the liberators found electric whips, torture beds and other interrogation devices that justified many of the atrocity charges long leveled at SAVAK. Also attacked was the Shah's principal residence in north Tehran, Niavaran...
...long been overdue, and investors have been cashing in on their eye-popping profits. Last week prices closed at $247, but few believed that the run-up was over. Traders were even talking of gold's next new plateau, and gold enthusiasts were hoping that it would crack...