Word: crackly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Nasution really wounded? Once free, he apparently rallied the troops on the city's outskirts and sent word to the crack Siliwangi Division at Bandung to move on the capital. General Suharto, commander of the strategic reserve, was placed in charge of operations. At 8 in the evening, Suharto's forward units were moving toward the center of the city and exchanging fire with Untung's palace guards. By midnight, Radio Indonesia had fallen to the attackers, and by the next morning, Untung and his men were in full flight. Their possible destination: a stronghold in central...
...bodies. Sanity hung by such threads as U.S. Special Forces Orville Roger Ballenger's calm recital each night of the 23rd Psalm, the creation of a deck of playing cards with tissue paper smuggled past the guards. Above all, they were sustained by the American determination not to crack under the Communist pressure...
...Cleveland Browns, with their leaky defense starting to give way, will slip to third. Frank Ryan and Jimmy Brown will see to it that the Browns score plenty, but any team in the league could crack the defense...
Trading on the New York Stock Exchange averaged more than 8,000,000 shares a day; in the first hour of one session, 2,930,000 shares changed hands, more than in any hour since 1929. As bystanders watched eagerly to see if the Dow-Jones industrial average would crack its historic high of 939.62 set last May, stocks bobbed back and forth. They started the week on the upbeat, then turned lower, then higher, then lower again and finally came to rest at 930 - up only half a point for the week. At the height of trading, the exchange...
...half of Spain is owned by 20,000 people." Scenes of old farmers and young boys, clumsily drilling in work clothes, grinning with hope as they go to the front, running helter-skelter into battle, are intercut with shots of Franco's disciplined soldiers and Hitler's crack Condor Legion. At war's end, boys and grizzled men are marched off by the victorious Nationalists to be shot, and the sound track quotes French Novelist Georges Bernanos: "They seized them each evening in remote hamlets, at the hour of return from the fields. They departed on their...