Word: crackly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Strangely enough, in the land that first proclaimed a man's home his castle, the Tories have backed the law as vigorously as the Socialists. In 1952 a Tory government spokesman ringingly pronounced the bad farmer "a menace to society," and announced a renewed drive to crack down on him with a rash of dispossession orders...
...national thrill that Jordan got three months ago by expelling Britain's longtime commander of Jordan's crack Arab Legion, Glubb Pasha, had spent itself. But Jordan, a poor desert kingdom crowded with 500,000 Palestinian refugees, had found no peace...
...Shunning the relatively simple task of defending his I.C.4-A. 100-yd.-dash title at Randalls Island, N.Y., University of Pennsylvania Sprinter Johnny Haines warmed up for the Olympic tryouts by taking a crack at the 220-yd. and 440-yd. dashes. He won both (his times: 0:20.5 and 0:47.3). Not since Ray Barbuti prepared for his Olympic triumph by turning the trick in 1928 has anyone run off with these same two titles...
...management are sure that in Roberts they own baseball's biggest bargain. Even in front of a losing team he wins so often that he more than earns his salary (about $60,000, including income from endorsements)-and incidentally disproves Indiana Humorist Kin Hubbard's snide crack: "Knowin' all about baseball is just about as profitable as bein' a good whittler...
...Young Lions. In Cavite, P.I., City Lawyers' League President Homero Alberto asked police to crack down on high-school students who carried guns to class, complained: "The students use the firearms either for threatening their teachers or unduly commanding the respect of their fellow students...