Word: crackly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...British army called it "Operation Lucky Alphonso," but few recent military operations have been less fortunate. In the first place, the 5,000 crack troops combing out the 65 square miles of Cyprus' rugged Troodos Mountains were not quite sure what they were looking for. Intelligence officers had a dog-eared snapshot of a square-shouldered man wearing a beret and with a .45 automatic slung from his Sam Browne belt, and they said it was the likeness of 58-year-old Greek Colonel George Grivas. But was this actually the legendary Dighenis, the man who fought both Nazis...
...PLANES are being offered to India at bargain prices in an effort to crack the air-transport market there. Indian Airlines, which wants to replace its fleet of obsolete U.S. and British planes, has an offer of twin-engine Ilyushin transports at about $200,000 apiece, with delivery promised within a year v. Western delivery schedules of two to three years for planes that cost upwards...
...matter. Its last visit in 1929 cost millions. It was eradicated in 18 months, but only after 75% of Florida's citrus crop had been destroyed. This year's crop is practically all harvested, but if the fly hangs around until next year, it will get a crack at a crop worth half a billion...
...allowed to read whatever books he could reach in his father's library, and when his school decided to try to solve the World War 1 teacher shortage by using the famous Lancaster system (employing older pupils to teach the younger ones), nine-year-old Jacques got a crack at his first class. "All I remember about it," says he, "is that it had to do with arithmetic and that the room seemed filled with thousands of very small children in black aprons ... It served, however, to apprentice me to my trade...
...reason Harvard Reunions have become somewhat tamer lately is not that after three centuries the University authorities are finally beginning to crack down. Nor is it, as one observer suggested last year, that the Classes currently celebrating their 25th anniversaries "graduated during the depression and have never gotten over...