Word: crackly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...site of the earth-power plant will be a hot spot near Healdsburg, 60 miles north of San Francisco, where hot springs and fumaroles abound. President Barkman C. McCabe of Magma Power thinks that a crack in the earth's crust allowed magma from the earth's hot interior to rise fairly near the surface. Magma is uneasy stuff, an intensely hot solution of steam and other gases in melted rock. When it bursts out in large quantities, it builds a volcano. When it does not quite break loose, it creates a geothermal area like the place near...
This week's show includes three plays each requiring four women and five men, so that every performer gets a crack at playing three different people. The starring roles are taken by Faye Emerson and Murray Matheson...
...objects. Even the smallest shop near the shrine is estimated to be worth almost $200,000 to its owner. Lourdes has now even put hinges on its street signs to reroute traffic through a different area of town every two weeks so as to give each merchant an equal crack at the pilgrims...
...prepared statement. While Goldfine read, McCrary "scored" the script, underlining with his red pencil the words that were to be "punched," i.e., emphasized; in the hearing Goldfine merely yelled every time he came to such a place. McCrary also noted that Goldfine's voice tended to crack every few minutes. At strategic intervals, therefore, McCrary wrote into the script the words: "Glass of water." (In the hearing room there were no glasses, only floppy paper cups.) Again, McCrary inserted stage directions telling Goldfine when it was time to produce props for the subcommittee. Example: a gold Le Coultre wristwatch...
Many companies shy away from big rewards alone because they can be given to only a few, are won again and again by the same crack salesmen. Instead, they hand out smaller prizes that give everyone a chance. National Cash Register has a series of trips based on points in sales quotas. Last year 1,200 of its 3,500-man force got a free trip (with their wives), plus $25 for each point over the quota. Rich's department store in Atlanta offers monthly bonuses to all its salespeople for topping their set quotas, once or twice...