Word: crackly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...minutes. At this point, the Crimson's accuracy had fallen off, but more damaging was its lack of rebounding. A short skirmish between Donohue and the Ephs' Sam Weaver and the complaints of Williams' coach seemed to have an accelerating effect on the varsity's offense. Bowditch began to crack with corner and lay-up shots and a few spectacular hooks...
...twelve reporters and rewritemen on a plane crash. Both cities use four-color news pictures (the Star regularly has one on its front page). Both produce Sunday papers that are regional institutions, provide readers with everything from soil-conservation guidance to fine sequence pictures of Big Ten football plays. Crack circulation departments turn loose an army of 19,000 eager carrier boys to home-deliver fully 85% of the Sunday papers. In all, the Cowles brothers have a 275,000-square-mile hegemony: the Des Moines Register (circ. 220,221), Tribune (circ. 128,824) and Sunday Register (circ...
...last week: "I bet they've started work on that old man already. And it's doubtful that he'll be able to know everything that's going on in the patriarchate. Anyway, it won't be too long before the Russians have another crack at getting their...
...people rather than make friends. His outwardly charming, cold-fish personality seems to carry a jinx. Before he is 20, he is partially responsible for the deaths of his childhood sweetheart and of his first mistress. At home he can do nothing to stave off his mother's crack-up as she drowns in alcohol...
...divorce, remarriage, dismissal by his Wall Street firm, a heart attack. But it becomes clear that for the most part these events are not accidents, that they are not even results of Alfred Eaton's education, past, or environment, but that they are fated by a small, icy crack in his being. The reader is forced to look backward over the story and to revise-what seemed love is suddenly revealed as the very inability to love, what seemed a wise or manly action toward a friend is seen as the fatal inability really to be close to anyone...