Word: crackly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...waters; in addition, New York's Wagner wants desperately to be elected to the U.S. Senate (he lost last year to Republican Jacob Javits by 450,000 votes), where his father, the late Robert F. Wagner Sr., left a record as a promoter of organized labor. For another crack at the Senate, Wagner must roll up a big vote next week; Tammany Boss Carmine De Sapio has passed the word that Wagner needs a 1,000,000-vote plurality to go places nationally...
...life. A couple of his slower-footed friends in the grade-school gang he ran with in Los Angeles wound up in reform school. When he was 14, he ran away from home, worked at odd jobs along the West Coast for a few months before he took a crack at education again in Washington's Walla Walla High School...
BREADMAKERS are in a jam with Food and Drug Administration. FDA charged that big Continental Baking Co. falsely labeled its Wonder and County Fair buttermilk brands as enriched breads. Agency will crack down on bakers that puff their breads with excessive health claims...
...wont to say that man was but a great mischievous Baboon ... He kept a pretty young wench . . . which I guesse he made use of ... as King David did ... After his Booke of the Circulation of the Blood came-out . . . 'twas beleeved by the vulgar that he was crack-brained ... I was at his Funerall, and helpt to carry him into the Vault...
Harvard police may crack down on motorcycles and scooters, the same as on cars, if it receives complaints of too many scooters being parked illegally overnight, University police chief Matthew J. Toohy announced yesterday. This is the first year that student-owned motorbikes have to be registered with the University...