Word: crackings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...this was fine news for Russia in 1935, except that one of Communism's great talking points has always been against Capitalism's technique of "the speed-up." As usually described by Communists, the Capitalist bosses incite crack workers to exceed normal production, get the whole shop working faster to keep up, exhaust and exploit their workers. Throughout Russia proletarians sensed that the disguised State Capitalism of Dictator Stalin, which has already forced piecework upon Russians, is now bent upon the speed-up disguised as "Stakhanovism...
...Finally," concluded Professor Mather, "I wish to express my sympathy for Commissioner Smith. It must be as unpleasant for him to crack the whip as it is for us teachers to dance...
...august Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary Ghaffar Khan Djalal on the ground that his car was "speeding"-the natural right of a great Khan. As she should beat any dog of an Iranian policeman who dared to halt the Khan, his wife was understood to have taken a crack at Elkton Town Officer Jacob Biddle. Iranians boiled with indignation at reports that the native Biddle not only failed to recognize the diplomatic status and immunity of His Excellency but exclaimed in the Maryland vernacular, "Aw, this guy is nothing but a preacher!" Then, actually grappling with the Great Khan, Biddle...
...second place, the young Japs mature at least three to four years before the Americans, and for some reason they are stronger through their abdomens. Furthermore, the average height of their crack swimmers is within three inches of six feet; they are not the diminutive Islandars of whom one generally thinks at the mention of the Japanese, but the inhabitants of the northern Isles who enjoy a cooler climate and a more rugged life...
Mother (adapted by Bert Brecht; Theatre Union, producer). The Red Russians may run their trains off the rails and foolishly crack up their super-airships, but their Revolutionary Theatre, with more than 50 houses filled every night in Moscow and stock companies by the hundreds performing throughout the provinces, is by all odds the world's most active and inventive. With an imitative eye on its spiritual mother, the Theatre Union has produced Mother, adapted from Maxim Gorky's novel of an illiterate old woman (Helen Henry)* who, once she gets the hang of things, turns...