Word: crackly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Russians, who have grown increasingly impatient at the refusal of the Czechoslovak government to curb entirely its people's liberty, decided that the time had come to crack down. Deputy Foreign Minister Vladimir Semenov flew to Prague with orders to stamp out Czechoslovak defiance. A more ominous visitor was Marshal Andrei Grechko, the Soviet Defense Minister, whose presence in Prague underscored Soviet readiness to use force if necessary to keep Czechoslovakia in line. At a meeting in Prague's historic Hradčany Castle, the Soviet visitors demanded a pledge from the Czechoslovak government that there would...
...extend the deadline for ending aid by five days. General Velasco could release the U.S. from its duty by agreeing to a negotiated settlement, but he can hardly back down under U.S. pressure without destroying his own reputation. It was largely because President Belaúnde had failed to crack down on IPC, and thus defy the U.S., that Velasco was able to whip up popular support for his military takeover. The support continues, as far as Velasco's expropriation of IPC is concerned. But many Peruvians are finally realizing that the U.S. is also serious, and they have...
Then a sharp crack rang out and blood spurted from the head of Robert Miller, a staff member of the New England Free Press. Several students inside had been blinded by a spray and were clutching their eyes...
Over the years, unions have treated worker seniority as gospel. The idea is that employees with the longest service have first crack at available jobs - and the last man hired is the first to lose his job in case of layoffs. Now the United Auto Workers has put before Ford Motor Co. proposals for a radical change in seniority arrangements...
...works of Franz Kafka have been translated into every major language-except that of cinema. Orson Welles' film version of The Trial failed to crack the surface of bureaucratic terror and reveal the author's psychological insights. German Director Rudolf Noelte's adaptation of The Castle, Kafka's last, incomplete parable, fares little better...