Word: crackly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...praises, the delegation took off for Peking. Franklin burbled of the "never-to-be-forgotten" sight of the Kremlin by moonlight, described Molotov as "carefree of spirit ... He left an impression upon me of being perfectly sincere," while Malenkov "cannot resist that friendly grin when someone has made a crack at the Russians or one of their particular policies." Wrote Morgan Phillips: "I am convinced-unless I know nothing of international affairs and human be havior-that the personal friendliness shown to us in the Soviet Union has been altogether genuine . . ..There are grounds for a renewal of optimism...
...Only at Army-supervised schools at Ft. Meyer and Ft. Belvoir did Negro children crack Virginia's ban on public-school desegregation. Roman Catholic parochial schools in the state accepted about 60 Negro pupils without incident...
COPPER STRIKE, which idled 33,000 workers, may prompt Attorney General Herbert Brownell to crack down soon on the Communist-led International Union of Mine, Mill & Smelter Workers under the new anti-Communist...
High on the dais, coatless and perspiring in the muggy heat. Bishop Eivind Berggrav of Norway leaned to a colleague while Schlink was talking and got off a clerical crack. "The Word was made the ology and did not dwell among us," he whispered...
Rummy & the Races. Fast-thinking, tough-talking Judson Sayre has been a crack salesman most of his life. He worked his way through Columbia University by selling salesmanship courses, once told a wavering prospect: "If you can't make up your mind faster than that, the course won't do you any good." (He made the sale...