Word: crackly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...desired: a foothold for Russia?however uncertain it might be?in the Middle East. He proved the foothold's reality by a war scare that set the world's nerves on edge, creating it with one brash rocket-rattling threat against Turkey, then dispelling it with one cocktail-party crack as soon as his pro-Communists had consolidated their control of Syria. More than any other man, Nikita Khrushchev dominated 1957's news and left his mark?for good or evil?on history...
...draw gave Anderson first crack at MacKay, and for a few sets the rangy (6 ft. 4 in., 185 Ibs.) University of Michigan alumnus played like a man who planned to win. He went for broke with his big serve, belted it with such fierce abandon that he committed 20 double faults. But he also scored 15 service aces to Anderson's five, and he pushed the powerful Aussie cowpoke to five sets before he lost, 6-3, 7-5, 3-6, 7-9, 6-3. After that, the cup slid swiftly out of reach. Cooper pinned Seixas...
...spite of all the talk about giving the children of the proletariat first crack at higher education, those actually getting it are the children of "Party officials, civil servants, officers of the armed forces and other elite groups ... A French student who attended Moscow University in 1948 and a German student who enrolled at Leningrad University in 1953 estimated that some 50% of the student body were of such background while well under 10% were distinctly of working-class origin...
...President will put the responsibility for cutting pet congressional projects squarely on Congress. ¶ Pentagon Missile Adviser William M. Holaday will now have full power "to direct all activities in the Department of Defense relating to research, development, engineering, production and procurement of guided missiles," i.e., to crack down on interservice rivalries. ¶ Defense Secretary Neil McElroy said that within a month he would appoint a single manager for new outer-space and anti-missile missilery programs...
...When he was not stopping punches with his face, former Middleweight Champion Gene Fullmer was forced to use every weapon he had as he tried to fight his way past Las Vegas' Neal Rivers for another crack at the title. For ten rounds he threw fists, forehead and shoulders with fierce abandon, and for ten rounds he caught as much as he threw. The verdict: a split decision for Fullmer. The surgical count: 16 stitches for Fullmer, only six for Rivers...