Word: crackly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Until campaign's end, Nixon's enemies tried to smear him with new charges of bribery and corruption. None was even remotely proved, and one was based on forged evidence. When Ike and Nixon were elected, a favorite Democratic crack was: "The country can probably survive it as long as Ike lives out his term, but the thought of Nixon being one heartbeat from the Presidency is terrifying." Much of the anti-Nixon feeling stemmed, consciously or unconsciously, from the resentment of those who were wrong about Alger Hiss when Nixon was right...
Former President Truman, on a filmed television program with Columnist Drew Pearson last week, gave his version of the famed "red herring" crack about congressional spy hunts in 1948. Said Harry Truman: "The facts of the case are that, in a press conference one morning, some young man . . . asked me if the action of the House Un-American Activities Committee was not in the form of a red herring to cover up what the Republican Administration in the 80th Congress had not done, and I said it might...
...same may be said of Cremonini himself. He still limits himself to simple shapes, smooth textures and cold colors, expresses little besides pity and terror. But Cremonini's art has the growing vitality eventually to crack its own limitations. Once the clumsiness and harshness that now constrict him are thawed away, the engineer's boy may well start highballing down the artistic track...
...atomic engine for the AEC includes such contraptions as General Electric's "O-Man," a 15-ton remote-controlled claw to handle radioactive material. (It can screw a nut on a bolt, and can even be made to pick up an egg.) Oil refineries, which used to crack oil by laborious batch methods, now do it in one steady, automatic flow; a few skilled workers sit at a master-control panel, guide the crude oil through many intricate steps to high-octane gasoline, or any one of a dozen other major petroleum products...
...brought by the Crest Theater, a movie house in the suburbs of Baltimore. Getting ready for its big opening in 1949, the Crest's owners went around to the eight biggest film distributors: Loews, Paramount, RKO, Fox, Warner, Universal, United Artists and Columbia. The Crest asked for a crack at first-run movies. One by one the distributors turned down the request; first-run films, they said, were for first-run houses, and by that they meant the downtown theaters that did the biggest business...