Word: crackly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...time." said the announcer as he introduced Bradley to the crowd. "You don't expect me to hit the ball after that, do you?" asked the general. The routine was the same for all players. Daytime: a round on the lovely, exclusive course at Cypress Point, a crack at the demanding layout of the Monterey Peninsula Country Club, and then, for the pairs with the 40 best 36-hole scores, a playoff at Pebble Beach. Evening: a round of the parties that brightened every clubhouse and properly stocked private home from Carmel to Cannery...
...righters, led by New Mexico's Clinton P. Anderson, decided to try an end run in the debate, based on the idea that the Senate should adopt its rules at the opening of each session-which it has never done. This done, the insurgents could then have a crack at killing the built-in filibuster before the rule could be accepted. But as all Senators knew, such tampering with Senate rules attacks the long-accepted philosophy that the Senate is a continuing body (because it re-elects only one-third of its members at a time...
Just getting a crack at Sugar Ray was the toughest scrap of all. Jenson had to settle for 12½% of the gate, or $20.915. Robinson pocketed $78,190 of the gate receipts, plus $60,000 of the TV and radio income, of which Fullmer got none...
Since the end of the war, Dr. Alvarez has divided his time between electronics and nuclear physics, scoring a long series of scientific triumphs. He developed the proton linear accelerator, an important atomic tool, and he holds patents in radar and other branches of electronics. A crack weekend golfer, he invented an electronic golf-practice gadget, which uses a photo-electric eye to spy on the motion of the club. One of these he gave to President Eisenhower. He drives an impressive yellow Lincoln convertible, and he does not see why scientists should not be prosperous as well as famous...
Last week Moscow sources found the Central Committee in two minds about how to deal with the youth problem. On the one hand there were pious calls for the "reindoctrination in Marxism-Leninism," and on the other hand an evident intention to crack down on students and unruly youths. Communist newspapers were demanding that the authorities jail "hooligans" and force schools to fight "enemy appearances." It was the kind of confusion in high places that caused all the trouble in the first place...