Word: crackly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...sharp crack of political rifle fire spanged through Washington again last week as Democrats picked off Democrats up the length of Pennsylvania Avenue. The sniping at Majority Leader Lyndon Johnson and his cautious tactics in Congress had been going on for months, but seasoned observers thought they detected a new note in last week's skirmishing: General Johnson and his moderate image of the Democratic Party were winning new and unexpected recruits, were in their strongest position to date. The liberal flank was being turned...
...next morning, more chipper than the night before, to board his chartered airliner for a lunch date with California's Governor Edmund G. Brown in Sacramento. He slept during much of the trip but managed to rouse himself long enough to hold an airborne press conference. First crack out of the box, Hearst Reporter David Sentner asked Kozlov why Khrushchev did not curb subversive activities of U.S. Communists. The question seemed to shock Ambassador Menshikov, but not Kozlov. Said he blandly: "Our country never interferes in the internal affairs of any country, even the smallest, certainly not such...
...temper of a country is often found in its wit. In Djakarta, the capital of the island nation of Indonesia, a government official last week whispered the latest crack: "Anyone who is not totally confused is just very badly informed." Another, and more troubling, crack is that what the tropical paradise of Indonesia needs is "a_cold winter or Mao Tse-tung." Lamented the Times of Indonesia: "Tension is in the air everywhere today. The one sentiment expressed on all sides is that of frustration...
Like the school bully putting the new boy in his place, Pancho Gonzales has used his bazooka drives and serves to humiliate every fair-haired lad who quit amateur tennis to take a crack at his professional title, which Pancho has held since 1954. Fairest-haired of all the challengers has been Aussie Lew Hoad, a blond muscleman with the forearm of a weight lifter, who challenged Gonzales in 1958 after conquering the amateur world. As usual, Gonzales treated the newcomer like an upstart kid, routed Hoad 51-36 on their first barnstorming tour of professional matches...
...grateful directors of the Hupp Corp. last week voted a $110,000 bonus to Board Chairman John O. Ekblom, 64, on top of his $42,000 salary, for the crack job he did in pulling the company out of the red. To the directors' surprise, Ekblom turned down the bonus, saying that his salary "satisfies my needs and my appetite." He suggested that the money be used for incentive bonuses for Hupp's executives, who need it far more. Said Ekblom: "I want to focus some attention on the country's forgotten man-the corporation executive paid...