Word: crackly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Father Jacques modestly dismissed the four crack lawyers paid for by his flock. "The Lord will clear me," he announced confidently, as the court sentenced him to 18 months' imprisonment for receiving stolen property...
Ever since the publication of his first novel in 1929, Graham Greene has been a master of the psychological thriller. He has turned out a long series of serious novels, mystery tales and short stories. A few years ago he took his first crack at drama by writting The Living Room; and he followed that up last year with The Potting Shed...
Late in the week, a fissure 150 yds. by 5 yds. was discovered in the state of Guerrero, about 200 miles south of Mexico City. Smoke still poured ominously from the crack. Frightened peons believed not only that it marked the source of the earthquake, but also that it might turn into an erupting volcano and cause further shocks. The still-disturbed earth shook Mexico City with nearly 100 tremors during the week. Although many of them were so slight that they could be sensed only on a seismograph, the worst one was two-thirds as strong as last fortnight...
...with British ones? "Actors in the United States don't have a chance to develop versatility as they do in England. One reason is that the profession is too much centralized in New York. Also the acting profession in England is smaller, so that one person can get a crack at many different types of role. In New York, however, there are 1500 actors for any one available part...
...alone one night last week in the block-long Presidential Palace in Guatemala City. Not even one of the wiry President's military aides was present as the couple strolled arm in arm down the long, wide hallway from their bedroom apartment to the dining room. Only the crack Presidential Guards stood duty in the series of archways that led to the courtyard gardens...