Word: crackly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Though in many Mississippi counties blacks outnumber whites by 2 to 1, only one Negro has held public office in the state for nearly a century. Last week, with record numbers of Negroes registered and voting in the Democratic primary, the white monopoly began to crack...
...whites are not the only people who occasionally stir up racial tension, and British police are quick to crack down on troublemakers of any tint. Last week police arrested Trinidad-born Negro Michael Abdul Malik, 34, the bearded leader of Britain's tiny Black Muslim movement. His alleged crime: making a speech in which he described whites as "vicious and nasty people...
...strong are some of today's steel alloys that four one-inch-square bars will easily support the weight of a 125-ton jet airliner. Yet even the best of these metals will crack and shatter if they are subjected to much greater stress. Earlier this month, a research team at the University of California's Lawrence Radiation Laboratory announced development of a super steel alloy that will bear as much as 4 times more pressure than common structural steels without breaking...
...called TRIP (for transformation-induced plasticity) steel. In effect, it can be stretched like Silly Putty or molten glass 2½ to 4½ times as far as present-day high-strength steel without fracturing its molecular structure. More important, when TRIP steel eventually reaches the point of crack-inducing stress, a solid-state chemical reaction is triggered that blunts small cracks just as they begin, then fills them in to prevent major wounds. The chemical change precipitating this "self-healing" process takes place on a near-atomic scale, and can be observed only with the aid of an electron...
...also fear?and in some cases hope?that they may be witnesses to a breakdown, which is one of the compelling attractions exerted by this durable but disaster-prone star. Her audiences arrive, it seems, achingly aware of Judy's tortured past: her teenage stardom and traumas, her voice crack-ups and innumerable busted contracts, her four broken marriages to increasingly younger men (she just broke off an engagement to a public relations man 16 years her junior), and her ailments and suicide attempts. As a result, she evokes a purgative pity and terror. Her concerts have the will...