Word: crackly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...next day Burmese newspapers ironically recalled Khrushchev's crack about the "British calling the Burmese barbarians." Said Serov to a Burmese newsman: "I don't understand." The Third Man was a long way from home...
...sign on its side was a proud boast: "Secret Weapon." Then the tail gate dropped and a pair of girl cheerleaders pranced out. It was a thin gag. The Brave Old Army Team needed more than that to sink Navy. It needed, most, someone like last year's crack passing quarterback. Pete Vann. Still a student at the Point. Vann marched in the massed, grey Corps of Cadets, but he had used up his athletic eligibility...
AIRLINE competition will get still another boost from the CAB, this time on the East Coast. Delta Air Lines, now the fifth biggest U.S. passenger carrier, will get a crack at bigger markets, with 2,000 more miles of routes spreading from Atlanta and New Orleans to New York. Eastern Air Lines, which has had the routes to itself, is fighting mad, promises to appeal the case...
...strong a light must necessarily cast a strong shadow; and Julie, so her friends think, has been too much afraid of the dark in human life for a grown-up girl. She agrees. "I haven't got a good capacity for suffering. I crack too quickly under the stress of it. I give up and I go away from what is hurting me. I don't want a life of continual fighting. I have a longing for peace. I wish I had more fight, but when I fight I lose my work -the feeling goes...
Student reactions to proposals for changes in the Freshman Smoker were mixed yesterday. Most students contacted felt that the Administration had "a good idea" in changing the present Smoker, but objected to its vow to crack down to prevent a repetition of last year's "blast...