Word: crackly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...biggest rockets to lob at Dwight Eisenhower and members of his personal and official family. Such pyrotechnics did not go unappreciated. Time after time, voices in his small but enthusiastic audiences cried out, "Give 'em hell, Adlai." And the new Adlai, when he heard, would grin and crack back: "I'm doing my best...
...pistol out of his dresser drawer for some target practice at the U.S. Army rifle range. As manager of the Chase Manhattan Bank's servicemen's branch in Heidelberg, German-born John William Kuhel was a welcome guest at the range, and he and Bobby were both crack shots...
...State, Commerce, Interior and Defense Departments and the Office of Defense Mobilization have been charting their course. In August, within a fortnight after Colonel Nasser's Suez seizure, the ODM had in hand a general "Plan of Action," now being worked out in detail by a crack Middle East Emergency Committee (made up of representatives from 14 top U.S. oil companies...
...liquid steel into molds and cast the world's first steel bell, other foundrymen could not believe it. At the Paris Exposition of 1855 they launched an investigation, ran chemical tests, were persuaded that the bells were not cast-iron fakeries only after sledge hammers failed to crack them. Last week Bochumer Verein für Gusstahlfabrikation, A.G.,* once again amazed steelmen. Out of its mill came the largest piece of cast steel ever made-a rolling mill foundation block (housing) weighing 257 tons, 6 ft. thick, standing 35 ft. high...
...Shirt and Schweppes campaigns, was unable to work out a successful offbeat formula for Rinso. At times the determinedly soft-sell ads turn out merely limp. Nevertheless, some of the loudest drumbeaters in U.S. advertising have learned lessons from the velvet-voiced sophisticates. The work of top artists and crack color photographers is being used to a far greater extent than ten years ago-if only to dramatize the why-buy copy underneath. Black, blustering headlines are yielding to airy typography. Clinical claims ("Guard Against Throat-Scratch") are fast disappearing...