Word: crackly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...that the Teamsters were ready to wring him out of office. Because there is no clear-cut constitutional procedure for impeaching him now, the reformers looked toward September when the International Teamsters open a convention and hold an election in Miami Beach, Fla. First to volunteer to take a crack at Beck was an old pal, Fourth Vice President John T. ("Sandy") O'Brien of Chicago, who announced for the presidency. Knowing Teamsters doubted that...
Oddly enough, the bench supplied some of the best batting averages. Utility outfielder Dick Fisher only got a crack at the horsehide 20 times, but lashed out seven hits for a .350 average. All his blows were singles. Kent Hathaway came up late in the season to fill a hole on the varsity caused by injuries and batted...
...studied rolling terrain to the northeast where Confederate Cavalryman Jeb Stuart maneuvered (on the way down from Carlisle) ineffectually while the battle raged. "Lee was let down by Stuart," said Ike in disapproval. "What beat Stuart was his love of headlines." Montgomery was visibly unimpressed by Confederate attempts to crack the Union right at the hill. "I shouldn't have fought the battle that way myself," he said. Grinned his World War II commander: "If you had, I'd have sacked...
Comparisons with Cardinal Mindszenty are inevitable. "The Poles are behaving like Hungarians and the Hungarians like Poles," is a saying that went the rounds last fall. Vast differences in the two nations' situations make direct analogy unfair, but the crack spotlights the contrast between the two cardinals: Hungary's hothearted, unbending Mindszenty, who fought a brave but disastrous battle with the Communists and wound up with the propaganda blunder of taking refuge in the American embassy; and Poland's coolheaded, intellectual Wyszynski, who emerged from three years' imprisonment with the will and the words to calm...
...Channel 9, which is so U.S.-infected as to make BBC seem "a stern, inflexible nurse of home-grown talent." Johnnie Ray turned up as the star performer of Easter Sunday's feature program. Sniggered the Express: "Twiddle the dial any evening, and the chances are that the crack of a shot in Dragnet will set the objets d'art tinkling on your chimney piece. Or that pathetic crib of an American quiz show, The $64,000 Question, will dribble a sad, self-evident little droplet of knowledge into our sitting room." Further, the Express charged that...