Word: crackly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...first radio broadcasts brought a response of British courage and skill reminiscent of the blitz. More than 200 potholers poured in from nearby towns. A clerk who had been refused time off to help in the rescue quit his job. An R.A.F. mountain rescue unit arrived, followed by crack rescue groups from the National Coal Board and the submarine base at Gosport. Hospitals sent cylinders of oxygen. The rescue workers struggled through the mud and darkness, slithered into waist-high pools. Fifty volunteers were spaced out at intervals in the tunnel to make a hand chain for passing on ropes...
...climb like a missile until it leaves nearly all of the atmosphere behind. It may rise 150 miles traveling at Mach 4. If it returns from this jaunt with its wings unmelted and its pilot alive, the door to true space flight will be open at least a crack. Return to the earth from a satellite orbit or a trip to Mars should not be very much more difficult...
...Marquis of Queensbury rules were not much respected by the host, neither did the visitors indicate any disposition to serve as Cannon fodder. Led by the crack shooting and brilliant defensive play of Harrington, the varsity broke out into a 42-32 lead after 18 minutes of the first stanza...
...Well, look here, little man, Goddamit, I am your Goddam roommate," I pointed out, rather cogently I thought. "I live here too. And you ought to get out of this habit of getting up promptly at the crack of noon. It's bad for your health...
Although she had seemingly accomplished her aim ("My job is to make a crack-through"). Therapist Chace knew full well that the effects of the session might be fleeting. But psychiatrists who have watched her strike some response in the minds of mental patients, are convinced of the value of her work. Dancing with her, patients sometimes cry out, "This is me!" Says St. Elizabeths' Superintendent Winfred Overholser: "There is no question but that Miss Chace's dance therapy is one means of bringing patients back to reality...