Word: crackly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Hussein, a boy who became a man in the public enactment of his will for survival, had gambled all to keep his royal inheritance. He was fighting to hold his disintegrating country from crack-up -and last week, by guts, by guile and by fortune's turn, he was winning...
...Next morning, reporters could hardly contain themselves while awaiting President Eisenhower's arrival at his regular weekly news conference. Edgar's remarks had already become the subject for serious dissertations by professional budget cutters across the nation. How would the President get out of this one? First crack off the bat, the question came about Edgar's opinions. The President paused for an instant, tapped his finger gently on his desk, grinned and answered. "Edgar," he said quietly, "has been criticizing me since I was five years old." The problem dissolved in a roar of laughter...
...approached leaders of the fanatically anti-Western (and antiCommunist) Moslem Brotherhood, and his agents supplied black market weapons bought with Saudi money. Often the young King drove out for secret, late-night meetings with chosen leaders on lonely roads outside Amman. Hussein picked Zerka for his showdown because a crack Bedouin regiment was stationed there and the Moslem Brotherhood was strong in the town...
...Twenty. Engineer Tucker won his academic spurs-and his first crack at public service-by specializing in industrial problems, notably the elimination of St. Louis' then-notorious smog. In the late '303, while serving a stint as smoke commissioner, he drafted and helped fight through to victory the city's model smoke ordinance. (His solution: cut down on the amount of volatile material used in industrial fuel.) Named chairman of Washington University's department of mechanical engineering in 1942, he kept serving political stints, e.g., as head of a freeholder committee that drafted a modern city...
...Foreign Office will give the Queen a platinum watch from Carder's to replace one she lost; Renault will give her a new car-her favorite pastel blue; and the municipality of Paris will crack open an ancient bottle of cognac. There will be-among heaps of succulent goodies at every turn-a seven-layered, 72-lb. cake on a bed of crimson candy roses from the pastry cooks and confectioners of the Société de la Saint-Michel. And for the visiting Queen's own very private use, there will be a single crystal flagon...