Word: crackly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...they picked up their sympathy for Castro. About three weeks ago they slipped away from home, eluded Cuban army patrols and reached the mountain stronghold, 125 miles from Guantanamo. There, according to rebel reports, they are now uniformed, submachine gun-carrying members of the Castro band, anxious for a crack at the Batista forces and worried only that they might lose U.S. citizenship for taking up foreign arms...
...this will prove very beneficial to Colorado College tomorrow night when it meets Michigan for the championship, but tonight the varsity just could not capitalize on these handicaps. It could never really crack through the unexpectedly tough Wolverine defense until 15:17 of the final period when Bob McVey saved the Crimson from a shutout with a blazing shot that Michigan goalie Ross Childs never...
Creeping professionalism has also put somewhat of a dent in the Wolverines' lineup. Wally Maxwell, one of Michigan's best wings, and Neil Buchanan, a crack defenseman, have both been ruled ineligible for play in this tournament. They were guilty of accepting expense money while trying out for the Toronto Maple Leafs...
...London Bill" Tucker's arrogant letter in your Feb. 11 issue-with its haughty gibe about American boys being "overfed, overpaid, oversexed, and over here"-brought back memories of the way we answered this crack during World War II. We damned well let them know that their blokes were underfed, underpaid, undersexed, and under Eisenhower...
...near monopoly that the slash and drip school of painters has clamped on the Manhattan art world for the past decade is beginning to crack up. The first signs of change came with the shift to a gentler, moody type of semi-landscape-painting which critics are calling abstract impressionism (TIME, Feb. 20, 1956). Last week one of the leading pioneers of abstract painting stunned his comrades with an about-face show that pointed to a new and radically different solution. See ART, The Bottle...