Word: crackly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...before, the calf had been taken away from its mother, one of Joe's six milk cows. First night away, the weaning calf tried to climb the wall of a barn stall. Next morning Joe found the struggling animal hanging by its right forefoot, caught high in a crack and badly cut. Old Sam Carver, neighbors remember, had hands as gentle as Joe's-but Sam had never had any sulfa and, very probably, would have lost the calf...
...Masters, though they recognize the student's financial problem, argue that an extra three hours of drinking on a home football Saturday are a dangerous thing. They envision excessively wild parties, couples staggering out onto the streets recklessly drunk, and crack-ups on the road back to Wellesley. Yet in extending room hours to 11 p.m. for ordinary weekends three years ago, the Masters undertook a similar risk, and the results have been encouraging. In sharp contrast to the dire predictions of the Faculty, few students have abused their new privilege. Undergraduates have shown that they are capable of responsible...
...Greek Chief of Staff Papagos in a black leather, ankle-length coat, cigarette in hand, went to the snowbound front to deploy his units. To the delight of the democratic world, his small, tough army whipped the Italians. Hitler delayed his attack on the U.S.S.R. and sent crack divisions to Mussolini's rescue; for three weeks Papagos and his evzones fought the Germans until overwhelming odds made him end the battle "to prevent Greece from being devastated." The Germans sent him to a VIP military prison in Germany. Here, to relieve the tedium, he gave a lecture to fellow...
...chief of the Imperial General Staff, returned to the eastern Mediterranean to repair the damage done in Cyprus by too little diplomacy too late. Sir John's appointment as governor of Cyprus, the headquarters of Britain's Middle East armed forces, was notice that Britain meant to crack down on violence stirred up in the name of enosis (union) with Greece...
...them in position to get off their $25 million annual subsidy by handing out new routes-some of them in competition with big airlines-and permanent certificates as scheduled carriers. The airlines view the new routes as mixed blessings. The airlines liked getting new routes that gave them a crack at someone else's passengers, but almost all have protested new routes that increased their own competition...