Word: crackly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...freeing himself, fell to the ground and broke his right thigh. For the Indonesians, he was an impressive catch. His name: Allen Lawrence Pope. Nationality: U.S.A. Florida-born Allen Pope, 29, was an ex-Air Force first lieutenant, who won the D.F.C. in the Korean war, became a crack pilot with Claire Chennault's Formosa-based Civil Air Transport, flew transports over Dien-bienphu in the Indo-China...
...laid on goodies (including exotic fruits, Sydney rock oysters, giant Australian prawns). And to make them pay off, it kept costs firmly tied to the runway. One big advantage is relatively low pay scales ($7,000 for a Connie captain v. $21,000 in the U.S.). Another is crack maintenance that cuts costly engine failures to about half the world airline average. Net result: a 52% jump since 1953 in what Qantas Boss Turner likes to call "bottoms uplifted...
...CRACK OF DOOM (313 pp.)-Willi Heinrich-Farrar, Straus & Cudahy...
...student resident in the Houses or College dormitories may rent or in any other way acquire an apartment or other form of accomodation for his own purposes without permission of the Dean, the Faculty has ruled. This new regulation is designed to crack down on assorted bounders in the College, it was explained...
...CRIMSON apologizes for having printed last week a story from the Spring Weekend issue of the Sun which told of a faculty crack-down on the rowdy, immature, and irresponsible undergraduate body. The story was a hoax...