Word: crackly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Fifth in a six-team league last year, the Crimson was given at best an outside chance to crack the first division this season. Yale and Cornell would bothez Princeton, it was thought, but no one also could possibly challenge the invincible Tigers...
There was more rain, and the rain was not good to Sinclair's Dino the Dinosaur, who somehow got a crick in the long neck he cranes-a crick that turned into a crack when the rain began to work into it. But contrary to pre-fair predictions of hideous tie-ups, fair-bound cars flowed in an untroubled, purring stream...
...spectacular crack-up was the most significant crash safety test in the history of U.S. civil aviation. Financed by the Federal Aviation Agency at a cost of $168,000, the project was planned by private aircraft companies, commercial airlines and the National Aeronautics and Space Agency. Its aim: to test new passenger safety devices and to analyze the pattern of structural damage wrought by such an impact...
...then was pitted against, Northern Dancer and lost by 16 lengths. After this humiliation he won two more, including a big upset over highly-touted Roman Brother against whom he came from dead last, 16 lengths behind, to win by a length. On April 4 Dandy K. took another crack at Northern Dancer and this time rallied in the stretch to be beaten by only three lengths. Dandy K. is looking good, and the Derby distance should be very much to his liking tomorrow...
Slow as they were to make any progress in dealings with their friends, the Marketeers managed to agree on action against their common enemy: inflation. Almost everyone had a crack at watering down the decisive anti-inflation plan drawn up by Economics Vice President Robert Marjolin, but the final program is still amazingly strong. It morally binds each of the Six to take such rigorous steps as levying new taxes to restrain consumer spending if it rises too fast, strengthening credit restrictions, holding wage rises to productivity gains, curtailing luxury housing, and maintaining liberal import policies to keep local prices...