Word: crackly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Workers' Support. White-thatched, ruddy-faced Lindsay Almond got his crack at the nomination the hard way. A onetime high-school principal, prosecuting attorney, judge of Roanoke's Hustings Court* (twelve years) and Congressman, he quit Washington in 1948 to be the Byrd candidate for attorney general, with the implied promise of a turn at governor. But as attorney general he lost his place in line when he endorsed Harry Truman's nomination of an anti-Byrd Virginia Democrat to the Federal Trade Commission. (Byrd beat the nomination in the Senate.) As a result, Byrd-minded Governor...
...track fans in the stands at Turku, Finland stirred unhappily at the announcement: both California's Don Bowden, first American miler to crack four minutes (3:58.7), and New Jersey's Tom Courtney, world record holder in the half-mile (1:46.8), were passing up the 1,500-meter event. The crowd had come out to see the Americans and Scandinavians push each other to a new record on the fast, hard-packed track where Australia's John Landy set the mile record of 3:58 in 1954. Fidgeting, the fans sat back to watch the Scandinavians...
...month ago the biggest of Farben's successors, Farbenfabriken Bayer of Le-verkusen. announced one of its most am bitious projects. With Anglo-Iranian Oil Co.'s German subsidiary, Bayer will build a $60 million plant near Cologne to crack 2,100,000 bbl. of oil a year into basic chemicals for plastics and synthetic fabrics. This will vastly expand Bayer's production of 13,000 different chemicals, dyes, drugs, resins and photographic products (Agfa), which last year rang up $380 million in sales...
...bluntly in 1948 that "we don't want any undesirable people coming into this neighborhood," he replied: "Neither do I. If I see anybody undesirable coming in here, I'll be the first to complain.") Though polished and well-mannered, he has a flair for the astringent crack. When critics complained that he had deserted pure jazz for sentimental corn, he said: "Critics don't buy records-they get 'em free." He dubbed Bandleader Lawrence Welk "a musical Ed Sullivan...
...nation's liberal professional classes. One of his daughters is an actress whose sole ambition is to play before the Czar; instead she sees his back in a railway station as he is about to make his exit from history. Another Arapov is a captain in a crack cavalry regiment, and one aspect of Russia's tragedy is seen in the inner conflict of this passionately loyal man who, amid mutiny and despair, does not know what his new loyalties ought to be. The doomed family has its socialist, too-idealistic Nicolas Arapov. When the soldiery, whom...