Word: crackly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Water Shortage. The colony's British rulers, who throughout the crisis have maintained a stiff upper lip, decided to crack down. Said Acting British Colonial Secretary D. R. Holmes: "The time has come to grasp and retain the initiative in this contest." Hong Kong's superbly disciplined police got permission to unlimber their shotguns. The Communist mobs retreated under volleys of pellets, and police collared 245 hard-core rioters. While British troops in full battle dress stood guard, Hong Kong police stormed into the previously inviolate Communist union headquarters and schools, carted off barrels of riot weapons-steel...
This approach relies heavily on the spadework done in structural linguistics, a new science, born in this century, that has set out to crack the hidden code of speech. Freud's explorations of the unconscious may also have made a contribution to structural theory. Like the taproots of culture, the foundation of speech exists beneath the level of awareness and the superimposed discipline of grammatical rules. The linguists and the structural anthropologists are united in the suspicion that the origin of human speech and of human society may have been equivalent events. Lévi-Strauss's books...
Once more in the clear, Wirges, who turned the editing of the paper over to his wife Betty three years ago, aims to take another crack at the machine. He now serves as a staff assistant, spending most of his time doing the investigative work he hopes will lead to better government in Morrilton. Wirges can count on some potent moral-and material-support from Republican Governor Winthrop Rockefeller. The Governor, whose 7,500-acre Winrock Farms ranch lies just outside Morrilton, has already provided Wirges with office space in Little Rock, secretaries, financial support and top-drawer legal assistance...
...letter from India suggested: "Take a man who is about to die into a small room. All the doors, windows and ventilators should be thoroughly closed so that there is no place for the soul to get out. As soon as the man dies, his soul shall pierce or crack the window glass, thus giving proof of its existence." Courthouse observers estimate that the hearing will last all summer, but Myers considers himself fortunate in at least one respect: "I don't have to rule whether or not man has a soul." That, he explains, is a matter outside...
...died in 1958, Bradley succeeded him as chairman. The following year, Arde's nephew, Harry Bulova Henshel, now 48, became president. Bradley brought to the manufacturing-oriented company much-needed organizational skills, laid the structural groundwork for expansion. As for Henshel, his immediate task was to streamline marketing, crack down on jewelers selling Bulovas at less than fair-trade prices...