Word: crackly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Rich and poor alike, the passengers in Rangoon station were in a festive mood last week as they boarded the crack Prome Express, homeward bound to celebrate waso, a Buddhist holy season. Every seat in the expensive compartments was taken, and the railroad had hitched on extra cattle cars to accommodate hundreds of poorer men and women laden down with baskets of food. At outlying stations, scores of waso pilgrims climbed aboard, further packing the train...
...pressure, the Eden government had made a concession of a sort in sending Lord Radcliffe to Cyprus, having hitherto refused to take any step at all while terrorism continued. Governor Sir John Harding, hoping to save face, said that Radcliffe was coming "now that the terrorists are beginning to crack." In Nicosia, "with deep resentment," the Greek Cypriot community declined to treat with Radcliffe while Archbishop Makarios was still in exile...
...until Washington's needling Senator Henry M. ("Scoop") Jackson questioned him about his famous crack "phony" (TIME, July 2) did Engine Charlie's practiced patience wear thin. Wilson had said that he meant a reporter's question about congressional appropriations raised a "phony" issue, but Democratic Senators contended he had accused Congress of taking a "phony" stand...
Divorce with Dividends. Though it survived the war, unlike 50% of Japan's 132 dailies, General MacArthur soon divorced the paper from government control, ordered all Times stock to be sold to its employees. The Times seldom massacres its chosen language, thanks to crack translators. Most of its memorable faux pas have been perpetrated by foreign-born journalists who know little of Japanese customs. Readers still chuckle over a story written for the Times by an American woman who dined unwittingly at Tokyo's most notorious whorehouse, burbled at artless length in the paper about the "attractive girls...
...average summer reading for women. It is one more study in the strange and terrifying fissures that scar the once sturdy heart of the British middle class. The means employed are female. Yet the reader with an attentive eye can see, as did Poet Wystan Auden, how "the crack in the teacup opens a lane to the land of the dead...