Word: crackly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...pliable husband. Secondly, you have to know how to get what you're after (if anything)--which is the most difficult part. Every victory turns to defeat, and the spoils of victory vanish without a trace. They'll tromp on you, boy, they'll pluck your heart out and crack it like an egg. But they mean well, and the fault is yours--you asked for a date
...same time, Pyne promised to crack down on the University police for ticketing some student cars that already had Cambridge parking tags on their windshields. "We don't want anyone to pay twice for the same violation," he said...
...Place apartment building which prohibits "beggars, baby carriages, bicycles or foreign cars in the lobby." The freshness of Sylvester's approach stems from innate curiosity, a versatile talent (he has written six novels, one movie script, is collaborating on a musical), and a sharp ear for the irreverent crack and the offbeat anecdote: Some Sylvesterisms : ¶ On progressive schools: "Johnny, stop playing with Joseph...
...afternoon in 1953, as she was playing volley ball in the schoolyard, Bernadete fell, giving her right elbow a nasty crack on the pavement. X rays showed a simple fracture, but the pain grew worse until last year, when a surgeon operated twice to remove tumors. When she failed to recover after the second operation, she was moved to the sparsely equipped, twelve-bed cancer hospital in the coastal city of Recife, where Dr. Valdemir Lopez, the hospital's director, found that a form of cancer (osteosarcoma) had spread from her arm to her right lung. He told...
Last week Fifth Place Detroit did Casey a three-fold favor: they swept a three-game series with the Indians and tumbled them from the lead. Suddenly, after almost two weeks of league-leading ball the Indians fell apart. Their crack pitchers started throwing games away. Lemon, alone, gave up eleven hits in eight innings. Third Baseman Al Rosen made a miserable batting slump worse by stranding five runners in a game that saw his teammates leave another ten men on base. Gratefully, the Yankees made their lead even larger by knocking over the dangerous Red Sox in three straight...