Word: crackly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Beaten by Indira in last year's race for Prime Minister, a badly miffed Desai remained aloof from her administration. He now stands as an alternative to her policies, since he would undoubtedly crack down on violence, actively encourage foreign investment, and cut back on government controls of business. Other possibilities for Prime Minister: Y. B. Chavan, 53, the able Home Minister, and D. P. Mishra, 65, chief minister of Madhya Pradesh, who led the party to a big victory in his state...
...before the Bird could be nested, there were the problems of humidity and temperature to solve; in the Prince's vaults, where Ginevra had been kept, the temperature is 44°, humidity 55%. If the wood-panel oil heated or dried too quickly, the paint surface might crack. To protect against this, the suitcase was turned into what Feidler calls "a traveling thermos bottle"; the painting was wrapped in sheets of polyethylene and sealed airtight to keep it fresh, much like a sandwich in Saran wrap. Tests had shown that the suitcase temperature would rise at most...
...hope we can make it (with this bill) by 1967 or 68," he said. The earlier ones were aimed at Southern institutions, but this one will be harder because it is aimed at the North. "Northern housing is a tough nut to crack," he said...
...response to students like Levine, the school has begun to crack down on applicants with side interests. It has also moved into competition with other graduate schools by starting its own Ph.D. program. The hope is that this doctorate in Public Affairs (which requires two years at the Woodrow Wilson School, two to four years in government, and finally another year back at the school) will become the goal of exactly those students who are now toying with fields other than politics after they leave Princeton...
...government has now told Parliament it is time to crack down. But it is fearful that its efforts to curtail legal supplies of heroin might leave a vacuum into which smugglers and pushers will rush, making the "cure" worse than the present disease. Trying to balance on this tightrope, the government will soon introduce legislation with the following provisions...