Word: crackly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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This week, in a scene reminiscent of the Czarist days at their most imperial, ex-Dragoon Zhukov, now a chunky, 59-year-old marshal, reviewed the crack regiments of the world's largest army. Standing in a pale blue Zis limousine, his broad chest loaded with decorations, his hand in a stiff salute, Zhukov watched the young cadets of Russia's top military academies goose-step their way through Moscow's Red Square in unwavering, platoon-wide lines. The cadets wore smart new uniforms; steel-blue with sleeves laced with gold-braided laurel leaves; their officers wore...
...Communist Party and secret police officers as well as military superiors are constantly on the watch, and any one may "crack down" on him, the report said...
...artist's sense of color and a sculptor's feeling for form; wherever she goes, she keeps both eyes peeled for new ideas. "With these dames," says her partner, Adolph Klein, "you don't know where they get their inspiration. It may be from the crack in the wall." With Claire, most of the inspiration comes from the fabrics that salesmen are forever trying...
...into Phase 2 of the competition. This is identical to egg picking, another old Easter custom. In egg picking (or butting) one competitor holds his egg point up, protecting all but the tip with his fingers. His rival taps downward with the point of the other egg. WThen one cracks, the contest is resumed with the large end of the egg. The one whose egg is cracked on both point and butt surrenders his egg. If the point of A's egg and the butt of B's are cracked, then the butt of A's should...
...middleweight champion of the world, bounced the former Light-Heavyweight Champion Joey Maxim (175 Ibs.) off the canvas of San Francisco's Cow Palace and earned a unanimous decision. Long a competent boxer, Bobo likes to think that he has the heft and punch to rate a crack at Heavyweight Champion Rocky Marciano (187 Ibs.), may well have proved his point. ¶Less than a month after they whipped the Montreal Canadiens for the National Hockey League championship, Detroit's Red Wings took on Les Canadiens again for the Stanley Cup. Without their suspended star, "Rocket" Richard (TIME...