Word: crackly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Persistent jockeying for position looms ahead for now until November and especially for the year following. What if Wallace piles up 5,000,000 votes? How does the founding convention of the new progressive party crack that? Wednesday afternoon Reuther did not think these were issues. "We didn't necessarily mean a 'fourth party,'" he commented, "but we did mean realignment." Wallace's backing isn't going to hold and "in any event when the Communist Party gets through using him, they'll drop him like an old shoe." Reuther disclosed that the CIO will "very shortly" speak...
...Among the landlord eviction, divorce, and traffic violation cases that predominate, we get a few crack-pot cases of an extra-legal nature," Jerome J. Shestack stated bemusedly last night...
...story, and it is so simply and deeply germane to daily life, that it is hard to realize that most of it was re-enacted and that some of it was invented. The Grandfather is very anxious to repair and enlarge the house, which has begun to sag and crack along one corner; the women are fully as eager to bring in electric current. They can't afford both in the same year. Grandfather yields to the women; and when he dies, that fall, the house is still unmended. This little conflict between fundamental repair and labor-saving technology...
...Freshman sextet will get one more crack at the B.U. yearlings today in an afternoon game at the Arena. The Crimson dropped its first encounter 6 to 5, and battled to a 4 to 4 tie on Monday...
Coach Halsey's ski team gets a crack at competition in its own league when it treks west to the Williams Carnival this weekend...