Word: crackly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Almost nightly explosions and the crack of rifles along the highway were the union's response. Surprisingly, only one person was seriously injured...
...Game' (See Cover) The quarterback snaps "Let's go," the eleven burly men clap their hands in a single, sharp crack, and the offensive huddle dissolves. Then, taking his place behind the looming rump of his center, the quarterback looks with narrowed eyes across the line of scrimmage at the most formidable sight in professional football...
...waterfowl biologist for the Michigan State Department of Conservation thought he knew: "Elderly hunters are affected seriously by low temperatures. Anderson stood up for a better crack at a flock of ducks, and his legs were undoubtedly numbed and out of control. In balmy October weather, there would have been no accident...
Immigration to crack production bottlenecks and bring new blood to the isolated country was another big factor. A third was a huge public works program that has spent $1.2 billion to standardize the nation's chaotic five-gauge railroad system, build new airports, roads, telephone and telegraph lines, and heavy utilities needed as a foundation for industry. The government's giant $1 billion hydroelectric project in the Snowy Mountains south of Canberra is already producing power, will ultimately generate 3,000,000 kw. and provide 1,800,000 acre feet of irrigation water for the states of Victoria...
Some stars play along with the racket because crack writers are tough to come by, must be pampered. According to Hollywood folklore, Jack Benny once used a quick series of five plugs which furnished the home of a writer who was about to get married. But a writer often has to exercise all his creative talents to ease in a plug. Working on a racing yarn, one writer yearned to plug a well-known drug product. Solution: he named a race horse Anahist...