Word: crackly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...gone to the Black Sea, as he liked to, to relax, while also tending to a little business and receiving occasional visitors. Thus the West has a witness to at least part of the story. In the morning after his talk with the cosmonauts (see SCIENCE) and his prophetic crack about Mikoyan, Khrushchev received France's Atomic Science Minister Gaston Palewski. In the midst of their conversation, a messenger burst in. Nikita excused himself, as the minister later recalled, explaining that he had to return to Moscow "for the cosmonauts." Then he disappeared into the dusk of a typically...
...final period, Zimmerman and Lemke made their appearance on the field. Taking the ball on the Crimson 10-yard line, Zimmerman moved the team steadily down the field, with Lemke carrying the ball at least every other down and gaining yards five and six yards at a crack...
...Justice Department was keeping a guarded silence. But the circumstances surrounding the Sokolov trial offered another more plausible, and far more bizarre, explanation. At least 75 U.S. counterintelligence agents had done undercover work to help crack the Sokolov operation. Their testimony would be the core of the Government's case. Then, early last week, Attorney Edward Brodsky, appointed by the court to defend Sokolov and Joy Ann, dusted off a U.S. statute passed in 1795, which provides that the Government must reveal the "abode" of any witness in the federal trial of persons charged with a capital offense. Brodsky...
...army until they received the back pay-a billion Congolese francs ($5,555,555) by their computation-they felt was due them. Tshombe brought them 40 million francs as a sweetener, and promised to send them to the military base at Kamina, where they would be forged into a crack fighting unit that would save the day for the Congo...
...Born Witch Burner." A zealous New Dealer who was born on his father's farm in Clay County, Ala., Hugo Black managed to earn a law degree at the University of Alabama without ever going to college, then became a Birmingham police-court judge and a crack negligence lawyer. In 1926, his Populist fervor persuaded Alabamians to elect him to the U.S. Senate. Aware of his spotty schooling, he spent his first term buried in the Library of Congress reading Aquinas, Aristotle, Herodotus, Locke, Marx, Mill, Montesquieu, Plutarch, Tacitus, Spinoza, Thucydides, Shakespeare, the records of the Constitutional Convention...