Word: crackly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...First Amendment Despite its willingness to seal just about every crack in the wall separating church and state in the U.S., the Supreme Court has never specifically tackled what some lawyers consider a serious fissure - the fact that all 50 states permit tax exemption for any house of worship or parsonage or place of religious teaching. Since 1956, the court has rejected three cases which argued that such exemption violates the First Amendment's establishment clause. Last week the court did it again; this time it was the case of Atheist Madalyn Murray O'Hair, who claims that...
Psyche Killer. Such problems are compounded as Bradlee hires more talent to file more stories. With Kay Graham's backing, he has raided other newspapers and magazines. His catch includes the New York Times's crack Political Reporter David S. Broder and the Saturday Evening Post's Stanley Karnow, whom Bradlee has sent to roam Southeast Asia. Nicholas von Hoffman was brought to town from the Chicago Daily News and now travels from one ghetto to the next to assess the miseries of slum life. Hired from the New Republic, Wolf von Eckardt provides some...
...draw, then gave up the ring to appease his wife and train his son in his own first love, the violin. David soloed with the New York Philharmonic at 14, later combined his concert career with studio work, often recording from seven to nine hours at a crack. His new job means a cut of about $15,000 in his yearly income. "Before, it was music for money's sake," he says. "Now it's music for music's sake...
During the early '30s, Reagan got a job as a sports announcer for a couple of Iowa radio stations. He had a crack ling delivery-so intense that he could keep his listeners enthralled with his account of a distant baseball game that Reagan would follow from the studio with the help of cryptic messages from a ballpark telegrapher and a fertile imagination...
...Negro alley is just an entirely different world," muses Charles Denaburg, a white lawyer who sits occasionally as judge in Recorder's Court (police court). He doubts that more than a few policemen take bribes, and he also believes that a police crack-down on whiskey houses would have little effect. "If you made it a capital offense," he says, "they're going to drink and gamble...