Word: crackly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...vetoed by Republican Governor Charles Russell). He built up a statewide political organization, won control of the Democratic machinery in both Reno, and Las Vegas. In his plainly furnished Reno office, he held court for all comers. Says one party leader: "He began giving two hours at a crack to people he wouldn't have let in his office two years before. And he loved...
...fray but was inevitably drawn into what he himself describes as the party's "family quarrels." He was also angry about the '"outrageous" lawlessness in the countryside, and last month called in the Army-not the police, which he said was too much under the politicians-to crack down. The Army made mass arrests of more than 300 Burmese, many of them AFPFL politicians, but U Nu insisted the arrests had no political significance...
...Brussels World's Fair has brought Eurovision's busiest beaming so far. A broadcast of the mid-April opening-day ceremonies was seen by an estimated 30 million in twelve countries, was described by announcers in six languages. This week, from the fair, Eurovision will crack the language barrier by telecasting a pictorial quiz game intelligible to all viewers. Though direct telecasting between Soviet Russia and Eurovision countries is not yet possible, Eurovision breached the Iron Curtain last month when Czechoslovakia and Hungary were hooked into the network...
...economies. Many fly aerial jitneys, such as war-surplus C-46s converted from U.S. Air Force freighters into lumbering passenger planes. Chile's thriving Cinta line paints its four-engined airliners Panagra yellow and green, and calls one flight El Latinamericano in cousinly association to Panagra's crack El Inter Americano -but not even dubbing the plane "Super DC-4B" makes it anything but an un-pressurized, 230-m.p.h...
...ready money would have staggered the earnest searcher for a low-rate bank loan. Free Scotch and fast talk was all it took to con a crew of well-heeled high rollers into coughing up $266,000 worth of bets. For his cash, each gambler was buying a crack golfer in the "Calcutta" auction before the Desert Inn's sixth annual Tournament of Champions. The man who owned the winner would get a whopping $95,760 share of the pot; even a lowly seventh-place finisher would bring his backer $11,970. For the 22 golfers there was another...