Word: crackly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Were a Carpenter, Red Balloon, The Lady Came from Baltimore). What those albums do not contain, however, is the degree of spontaneity and emotional depth that mark Hardin's in-person performing. He has one of the most poignant voices in the folk field, seemingly always about to crack or lapse into a sigh, as if the effort of every graceful phrase cost him pain. His melodic songs of love, loneliness and loss are romantic yet rigorously crafted ("You look to me / Like misty roses / Too soft to touch / But too lovely to leave alone"). This...
Jordanians have long expected Hussein to crack down on the fedayeen, who stand in the way of any hope of a settlement with Israel. Two weeks ago, residents of Jordan's capital of Amman awakened to the sound of gunfire. Loyal Bedouin soldiers clapped a tight curfew on the city and rounded up members of Kataeb al Nasr ("phalanx of victory"), a shadowy group on the fringe of the fedayeen movement. Tensions ran high between the Bedouins and the dispossessed Palestinians who now make up a restless majority of Jordan's population. When Bedouins also attacked a training...
...Bruins had three drives of seventy yards or more, but once in the third quar-were halted by the stubborn Crimson defense after earning a first down on the Harvard two-yard line. Four successive runs failed to crack the defense. Several plays later the Yardlings fumbled on their own 15 to set up Bonner's touch-down...
...final week, the enameled confidence that had marked Nixon's staff from the first began to crack. In the final hours, it all but collapsed. From a virtually unassailable lead of 16 points over Hubert Humphrey in the mid-August Gallup poll, Nixon had declined to a scant two-point edge in both the Gallup and Harris surveys on the last week-end of the race. On Election Eve, Harris weighed in with a final poll that took into account the impact of the Viet Nam bombing pause proclaimed by Lyndon Johnson last week. In it-astonishingly-Humphrey...
...course, the instant pre-med is hardly a phenomenon restricted to Harvard College. It may not be, proportionally, so large at other colleges, but it is substantial enough that house pre-med advisors are telling strong candidates to apply to a dozen schools (at $10 to $20 a crack)--and weak candidates to pray...