Word: crackings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...press no doubt stems from the fact that papers like TIME, when departing from truth in order to wisecrack, are disinclined to make the apology as broad as the original insult; thus you compound the evil. As friend and attorney for Mr. Hoover I write to say that your crack could have no result but to undermine the standing of J. Edgar Hoover as a unique, law-enforcing official, one who has impressed on our folkways a concept of law & order while still preserving full civil liberties even for law violators. Why don't you admit that the implications...
...Venezuela. On the far plains, the llanos, that stretch from the Caribbean coastal Andes southward to the jungles of the Orinoco, the rains had ceased. Now, where the sparse cattle had been herded from hummock to hummock by boat, the floods would subside. Now the earth would crack and parch through six months of drought...
...circulation had recently jumped from 80,000 to a record 105,000 when paper restrictions were removed (TIME, Oct. 7).*The Guardian, however, never confuses circulation with influence: in its own city it is fourth in a field of four. Its foreign staff, shattered by the war. and its crack London bureau were getting back^ to full strength. And in a new overseas edition, an airmail version of its weekly, the paper was making its voice heard overnight to a select and growing audience (now 1,644) in the U.S. and Canada...
Cruel & Unusual. Next day the broadcasters were jabbed again, and in similar fashion, by FCCommissioner Charles R. Denny, who made the crack of the convention: "I take this occasion to deny that the commission is planning to punish large numbers of wayward broadcasters by forcing them to listen to their own stations two hours every day. This would be clearly unconstitutional, under the Eighth Amendment, as cruel and unusual punishment...
...foreign soil of Van Cortlandt Park in New York City in the traditional Ivy League Heptagonals, which since the beginning of the war have included Army and Navy to make a total of nine college on the roster. Harriers Gurley, Cogan and the other top men will get another crack at their major H if they can squeeze into the first seven places...