Word: crackings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Ellender had the floor. Barkley went and whispered in his ear. Bilbo opened his door a crack so that he could watch. He watched Ellender yield the floor to Barkley, who promised to give it back if Ellender still wanted it "after he has heard what I have...
...made inquiries," said Stokes, "and I learned they had discussed me at this French Lick meeting at considerable length. It seems the point was that I was interfering with editorial policy; one guy made some sort of crack like why should they pay out money for that? Well, I don't want their money. . . . My decision is final, and I want out." He could get along without the money he got from the twelve Scripps-Howard papers which took his column: 97 other U.S. papers print his stuff...
...news about T.W.A. seemed bad last week. The TWA Constellation Star of Cairo cracked up in Eire, killing twelve (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS). And the partnership between thin, erratic Howard Hughes, who controls T.W.A., and roly-poly, even-tempered Jack Frye, who runs it, cracked up. But the second crack-up might prove to be good news for T.W.A...
...airman who finds himself falling in a burning plane. By radio, he shouts amorous-poetic speeches (he is certain they are his dying words) to a pretty WAC (Kim Hunter) on the landing field. Then he jumps-without parachute. Incredibly, he picks himself up uninjured except for a peculiar crack on the head that makes him imagine he is a fugitive from heaven. Throughout the film, the camera moves between a clinical study of lovesick Niven's brain disorder and the imaginary heaven that wants to straighten out its ledgers by hauling him in. In the big, final scenes...
...anti-Communist resolution passed at the C.I.O's Atlantic City convention was mild enough. But it had given state C.I.O. councils the green light to crack down on local Reds. Within the last fortnight both Massachusetts and New Jersey had done so. Last week it was Wisconsin's turn...