Word: crackly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Nationalist days was the tough, tight-fisted war lord of Yunnan province, took a crack at the most sacrosanct foreign idol of all. Said General Lung, now a vice chairman of Red China's National Defense Council: "It is totally unfair for the People's Republic of China to pay all the expenses of the Korean War. The U.S. has given up her claims for loans she granted to her allies during the first and second world wars, yet the Soviet Union insists that China must pay interest on Soviet loans." He would like to know, Lung added...
...have any clear idea of war aims, and most fight merely because they have no alternative. Yet there is always a swaggering consciousness of their own worth. "You know, boys," boasts a veteran, "I think that if there were thirty million of us, we'd take a crack at the whole world...
Your June 10 "Battle of Midway" article was succinct, important and still personal. Our thanks are also due to those who helped crack the Japanese secret code, thereby initiating an enlightened, successful campaign. WARREN C. WAGENSEIL St. Petersburg...
...year's exercise in safety had been a dull performance as refueling rules held everyone down to reasonable speeds; there had been only one fatality. Last week the promoters decided to gamble again. Almost as if they had forgotten 1955's monstrous moment of tragedy when a crack-up spilled into the crowd and killed 83, they turned the drivers loose; a man could carry enough fuel to keep his throttle foot on the floorboard as long as he dared. And almost as if they had forgotten, too, some 250,000 spectators crowded close to the barriers...
Crime & Punishment. In San Antonio, Sheriff Owen Kilday, faced with heavy repair bills on TV sets smashed during county jail riots, warned that he was going to crack down hard if any more sets were damaged: prisoners would not be allowed to watch Dragnet or The Lineup...