Word: crackly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Cancer. Federal authorities will crack down on the University's computation laboratory as the nerve-center of a nation-wide numbers racket. The Boston Post will print a series of twenty-six editorials criticising the University, after which John Fox will trade the paper for the Saturday Evening Post. "Better hours," Fox will explain. "I'm tired of being battered from pillow to Post...
...extravagant titles Perón's followers bestow on him is "World's No. 1 Sportsman"-which in sports-worshiping Argentina is rather more eulogistic than calling him, say, "World's No. 1 Statesman." In his younger days Perón was a boxer, skier, crack shot, swordsman, horseman, speedboater and racing-car driver. But in recent years motorcycling has become the aging (59) No. 1 sportsman's No. 1 sport. He often takes a spin on the grounds of his suburban estate or his downtown presidential residence, and now and then he rides through...
Deceptive Preview. It was a special victory for Coach Paul Brown of the Browns, a cold, hard perfectionist who handles every game as if it were a strategic contest of coaches' brains. Although his crack passer and quarterback, Otto Graham, knows as much football as any player in the business, Brown minutely directs the strategy. He has won five straight eastern titles, but none of these was followed by a national championship...
...game), and all four sides are playing surfaces. The ball is a hard-rubber affair, somewhat larger than a golf ball; the handle of the racket is longer than that of a tennis racket, but the head is smaller. A crack squash player needs stamina and strong wrists; he must be puma-quick on his feet, and know all the angles by experience...
Aside from the mutual security pact with Formosa, U.S. policy in the Far East last week was the object of continued confusion and contradiction in the face of Communist boldness. The boldness crack led out of Peking as the Chinese Communists rejected the U.S. protest against imprisonment of 13 Americans as spies. The confusion and contradiction whirled up and down Pennsylvania Avenue in Washington...