Word: crackly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Robinson's old wicked grace and his panther's skill were just a fraction off, and the snap was fading from his punch. But the beaten champ was too proud to retire. Sugar Ray went home to Harlem and worked hard to get in shape for another crack at Turpin...
...been around for more than 100 years. Sprouting from the main lines, branch tracks lace the map like a web spun by a Stakhanovite spider. One-and two-car trains jog across the countryside as leisurely and erratically as the village gossip on her daily rounds. Except on the crack trains, cars are dirty, creaky, ramshackle and old, though also comfortable in a musty, antimacassar way. Cartoonist Rowland Emett has epitomized both Britain's love and loathing in Punch's "FarTwittering and Oysterperch Railway." But these rachitic sinews manfully bore the baggage of war. When the railroads were...
Hershy Kay: Western Symphony (New York City Ballet Orchestra conducted by Leon Barzin; Vox, 1 LP). A grab bag of American tunes, famous (Good Night, Ladies) and infamous (Rye Whisky), written to order for George Balanchine's crack ballet company. Comments Balanchine aptly on the album cover: "It was exactly as if I had ordered . . . riding clothes, admirably cut, free in the seat, smart at the hips, and unobtrusively if personally elegant...
...campaign by Light Heavyweight champion Archie Moore for a crack at Rocky Mareiano's heavyweight crown took the form today of a want ad in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch personal column, asking "information" on how to get the fight...
...injuries, Stapp is still reasonably functional, but his most recent sled rides have made it hard for him to stay so. Last month at Holloman he climbed into a nine-rocket sled. In his mouth he held a rubber "bite block'' so that the jolting would not crack his teeth His helmet was fastened firmly so that the wind would not break his neck. Four strong nylon belts lashed him to the seat His elbows were lashed together by a strap behind his back, and his wrists were lashed together in front. His legs were tied in three...