Word: crackly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...glass-jawed light heavyweight who held the title in his. hands for 14 rounds last summer before he blundered into Archie Moore's murderous right, uncorked a wallop of his own, flattened Joe Louis' protege Paul Andrews in six rounds and moved one step closer to another crack at Moore. ¶ In New Haven, Conn., Yale's 400-yd., free-style relay swimmers got the university's annual water carnival off to a fast start by splashing to a new world's record...
...TIME . . . Charlie is practically a charter subscriber and has been a devoted reader for many years. Unfortunately, however, he has difficulty keeping current. There are too many things to read, and not enough hours in the day . . . When a new issue of TIME arrives, he doesn't even crack it open for a peek. No sir. He just puts it in its proper place with the other unread issues that have piled up. and keeps right on plodding along with the copy he was engrossed in at the moment. In short, he's going to read his TIME...
...long line of seafaring Prides (see box), went about his daily routine with casual efficiency. The mood aboard ship was one of unruffled waiting. Vice Admiral Pride and his topflight staff had events well enough in hand so that he could tip back in his chair, grin and crack: "Everybody's heaving around, and the admiral hasn't a thing...
...share once more in Britain's "ancient and symbolical ritual." By selling film rights to hangings, the master executioners could be rewarded with more than their present fee (about $44 a knot). Moreover, says Duff, hangings should be broadcast for their highly dramatic sound effects, such as "the crack like a muffled shot of a small pistol which indicates the official breaking of the criminal's neck...
...private definition of utopia--a place where no student ever misreads a schedule or oversleeps, and every examination comes and goes with administrative smoothness. Unfortunately, about a dozen students every term forget to appear for their tests. And there are even a few adventurous souls who try unsuccessfully to crack the University's virtually airtight security system for printing, guarding, and conducting examinations...