Word: crackly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...renewed prospect of solidarity with the U.S. Scarcely had Eden finished speaking than he got a phone call from President Eisenhower, who interrupted his Election-Day concerns to express his approval of Eden's decision. Cried Mollet in Paris: "When the Soviet Union thought it saw a crack in the free world and wanted to threaten, we at once found the U.S. at our side...
...steel-shod Russian jackboot heeled down on Hungary this week, stamping and grinding out the vestiges of a daring young democracy. A force of 4,500 Soviet tanks, crack paratroops, MVD storm guards, and a quarter-million Red army infantrymen drawn from the remote wastes of Muscovy swept through the brown fall countryside, overwhelming towns and villages, smashing isolated Hungarian army resistance, and sealing off the country...
...starts, practice sessions seem to be mildly organized periods of horsing around. Scrimmages are out of the question. "You work too hard during the week and you leave your best on the practice field," says Dodd. While backs brush up on their assignments, linemen horn in and take a crack at carrying the ball "to give them some variety." Groups wander off to play volleyball, using a goalpost crossbar as the net. Touch football is a favorite time-killer. Every few minutes the routine is changed so the boys will not get bored...
...outside, Jockey Hartack nudged Barbizon into a thundering stretch drive that carried him past the field to a thin victory over Runner-Up Federal Hill. For his day's work, Barbizon collected a whopping $168,430.50, more than any other two-year-old ever won at one crack. "He's still green as grass," said Jockey Hartack. "There's no telling how good this colt...
After nearly four years on Broadway and a successful movie run, Garson Kanin's ragtag yarn was an eventual certainty for TV. It also marked Kanin's first crack at TV directing. He was surprised at the prissiness of TV censors: four of the several references to Billie as a "broad" had to go. Anything that might be construed as a reference to mental illness was also cut: "crazy broad" became "dizzy broad." "Off her nut" became "blow her stack." Suggestions of physical impairment were primly deleted, viz., Billie, trying on her glasses, to Harry: "What...