Word: crackly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Captain Matthew J. Toohy of the University police force warned all car-owning College students yesterday that "we now have to crack down on all night parking violators. My advice to those not owning spots in the Business School lot is to get their cars out of Cambridge...
...this time Red has seen a great change in attitudes toward religion around the Square. In 1936, when he made his first call (to Wigglesworth), eyes peered furtively through a crack, and the door was hastily slammed. when Mr. Kellogg returned the next day, a number of people giggled at him. Later, he discovered that the Wigglesworth at him. Later, he discovered that the Wigglesworth man had been told that a sailor would appear at his door, dressed as a clergyman...
...supports, he has been willing to promise a firm 82.5% of parity on most basic crops in an effort to prevent Congress from passing a rigid 90% bill. Having learned the politic art of zigzag, he can be philosophical about it. At staff meetings, he has been heard to crack, somewhat ruefully, about "rising above principle...
Said an exhausted Kelley: "I could have run farther, but I couldn't run any faster." The one consolation for the U.S. is that Kelley and Costes may get another crack at the Finns in the Olympic Games at Melbourne. But this is dampened by the fact that there are several runners back home who can beat Marathon Victor Viskari. "We run good because there isn't much else to do," explained one of the Finns. "Besides, we are very close to the Russians...
Some of the damage is still comparatively minor, e.g., the crack across the top of Tintoretto's Rescue of Arsinoe. But in the case of Diirer's "Dresden" altarpiece. the damage has resulted in almost total loss; the painting, done on fine linen, was apparently water-stained and rotted (probably while in the Germans' wartime hideout), then clumsily glued onto a wooden panel (probably by the Russians...