Word: crackly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Vatican bobbled the dialectic ball again. That the staid St. Bernardino of Siena should be the patron saint of advertisers [Feb. 4] and bandied about by the mass-media Babbitts is unforgivable. Our blatant and vulgar advertising is the one crack in our picture window that anti-Americans point to as our literary output. Madison Avenue's grey flannel mouthings could never wear Bernardino's hair shirt...
...tynine percent mo' spirits as we got room fo'. People ain't so develish as dey used to be, an mo' of dem wants to get into Heaven. We's either gwine haf to lease eternity rights from de devil fo' mo' livin' space or else crack down on de applicants...
...Academy hops that his class Lucky Bag terms him "a pink-cheeked Apollo." After graduation and four years in battleships, Raddy got into the Navy's second postwar aviation class at Pensacola, Fla., won his wings in the fall of 1920, moved steadily upward to command the crack Fighter Squadron I aboard the new carrier Saratoga...
Ulbricht dared not crack down too hard on the students. Instead, he pinned the rap on Wolfgang Harich, charging that the young teacher had acted under the influence of "reactionaries" in Hungary and Poland. A handsome, soft-looking youngster in Berlin's World War II "high society," Harich had studied philosophy, turned Buddhist under the influence of Japanese embassy friends, and later, when the draft caught up with him, deserted the German army. A friendly general saved him from being shot, and he turned Roman Catholic. After the Russians came, he switched to Marxism, was made lecturer in historical...
...back their imports of Venezuelan crude oil, thus making that oil available for direct shipment abroad, and 2) reduce refinery runs, to make even more crude available for shipment abroad. Furthermore, said the independents, refiners should change their entire historic pattern of refining oil: they should crack less gasoline, which Europe does not need, instead produce more relatively low-grade fuel and heating oil, which Europe does need...