Word: crackly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Expensive Sabotage? Whatever hopes anyone might have had about Bette Davis on television film were headed for a crackup when she appeared in Crack-Up on the 20th Century-Fox Hour (Wed. 10 p.m., CBS). For two acts of a dreary version of a 1952 film by Writer Nunnally Johnson, Bette did not even appear, as the dialogue driveled on between drama ("We belong together; I know we do") and comedy ("It's raining cats and dogs; I just stepped in a poodle"). When she finally did appear as a bedridden sage spouting inspirational cliches, she was as stiff...
...North Carolina College's crack hurdler, Lee Calhoun, matched the indoor 60-yd. high-hurdle mark with...
...Rising Deputy. When Stalin split the unwieldy Soviet security apparatus into two branches, Kruglov became MVD boss, controlling a crack security army of a million men. His deputy: Colonel Ivan Serov. After Stalin's death. Internal Affairs Minister Beria began liquidating top security bosses, but before he had gone far-or far enough-he was himself arrested. The day of Beria's arrest. Kruglov's troops blocked all exits and entrances to Moscow, froze the city tight. The same day, Premier Malenkov named Kruglov Minister of Internal Affairs in place of Beria...
When grades become an end in themselves, overstrong attitudes of competition result and students may crack, and the over emphasis may cause students to stoop to cheating, he continued...
...million yearly in production costs. Production managers have discovered that $100 worth of radioactive cobalt-60 will do the work of $20,000 worth of radium. By 1980 atomic radiation may also provide 10% of U.S. industry's "process heat," e.g., to refine ore into metal, make glass, crack...