Word: crackly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Korea and filled in as a test pilot in between discovered the truth of the statistic that most accidents happen in the home. While he was hanging up a mirror in his bathroom, a throwrug slid out from under Glenn and threw his head against the bathtub. The hairline crack in his skull incapacitated his sense of balance for about nine months and probably cost him the title of United States Senator From Ohio...
Along the border in Borneo, the Federation's far-flung security force-Malaysian, British and Australian-now faces an estimated 10,000 Indonesian troops. In the Riauw Archipelago, just across from Singapore, Indonesia's crack Siliwangi Division awaits President Sukarno's irredentist orders. Since late April, Malaysian patrols have annihilated four major raiding parties from the Indonesian side, severely mauled a fifth. And Sukarno's increasingly desperate "Crush Malaysia" campaign has spawned ugly new tactics. Items...
...compulsive clown, a tendency he blames on his eccentric dental structure, a hereditary trait with the Hoar-Stevenses. He had little thought of working until he was 27, since "my father bought my clothes and women and things." But then a pal persuaded him to take a crack at the films...
Understandably, many of the richest teams see the draft as a threat to their power. No longer will such moneybags as the New York Yankees and Los Angeles Dodgers be able to sew up the brightest prospects. The last-place team each year gets first crack, and so on up the line. Yankee Vice President John Johnson called it "immoral"-though the seventh-place Yanks had better watch their language...
Rival Images. Britain pushed for more orders for its short-haul BAC One-Eleven jet, which faces stiff competition from Boeing's new 737 and Douglas' DC-9, and its BAC Super VC 10, which seeks to crack the domination of Boeing's 707 and Douglas' DC-8 in the European long-haul market. Italy's Fiat and two German firms displayed plans for a new vertical takeoff reconnaissance craft, the VAK 191. Even the small European countries offered advanced products, such as the Swedish supersonic Saab-35 Draken interceptor and the Dutch Fokker F.28...