Word: crackly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Flaming Spin. The first small crack was enough; air pressure (more than half a ton per square foot) did the rest. The cabin exploded like a bursting balloon; its top flew off; its tail and nose broke away. The wings broke in two, releasing floods of fuel, which ignited. Then the gutted fuselage with its two stub wings dived flaming to the sea in an inverted spin...
...benevolent but despotic grip, faithfully delivered, election in and election out, 60,000-vote majorities to his hand-picked candidates. White-maned Boss Crump, with a grandpappy grin and an eloquent gift for invective (he once said that an opponent would "milk his neighbor's cow through a crack in the fence"), gave Memphis emerald-green parks, good schools and libraries, roared around town yelling "Hiya, boy" at anyone who would look his way (and all Memphians did), got rich on an insurance company that everyone in his bailiwick clamored to patronize...
...boss Mitterrand; he took his information to an old right-wing Gaullist friend in the Cabinet. At the same time, allegedly at the urging of Martinaud-Déplat and Baylot, he planted reports with U.S. intelligence that Mitterrand was a pro-Communist security risk who was disinclined to crack down on Communist sympathizers. Dides also refused to tell Mitterrand or anyone else how the spying was done. The plan, insist Mendès' friends, was to expose the leaks during the London Conference, discrediting Mitterrand and perhaps even toppling Mendès himself...
...Sofia. Bulgaria, after breezing through the early rounds of an East European tournament, a team of undefeated Polish pugilists took on a squad of crack Soviet boxers in the finals, turned out to be unexpectedly aggressive satellites, and clobbered the Russians, eight bouts...
Deep in the Williston Basin at Mandan, N. Dak. last week, Standard Oil of Indiana started production at the basin's first oil refinery, a $30 million giant that was as welcome to North Dakota as the first railroad. At capacity, Standard Oil's refinery will crack 30,000 bbls. of crude oil a day, give the Williston Basin its first local outlet for its oil. Though the basin holds one of the biggest oil pools in the U.S., its development has been hampered by lack of means to get the oil to market. The 445 wells already...