Word: crackly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...mechanics took the diesel off its base and tried to weld the crack. Part way through the job, the welding torch ran out of oxygen. Now Vostok was really in peril. Its only hope was a cylinder of oxygen dropped from an airplane the previous autumn. It had broken loose from its parachute and plunged into deep snow. Efforts to find it were abandoned, but the area where it fell-more than a mile from the station-had been carefully marked...
Behind by three goals for 46 seconds of the middle period. Harvard's crack hockey team stormed back to a rousing 6-4 triumph over highly-rated Boston University last night...
...discriminate against any applicant on the basis of race or color. But in all its 175 years, not a single Negro student has entered its classrooms. Last week Federal District Judge William A. Bootle ordered the university to admit immediately a "qualified" Negro boy and girl. Their entry will crack the total segregation of all public education, from kindergarten through graduate school, in Georgia-and in Alabama, Mississippi and South Carolina as well...
Harvard's crack hockey team came through when it counted last night, taking a 4-1 victory from highly-touted Boston College...
Friday's game at Ithaca opened the Crimson's Ivy League schedule. Now ranked fourth in the East by the New England press, the sextet will play its next game Wednesday against a crack Boston College varsity, and will meet Dartmouth Saturday in its second Ivy contest...