Word: crackly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...earthquake zone. To make matters worse, most of the city was built on a glacial-outwash plain, which rides on thick beds of slippery clay. When earthquake waves raced through Anchorage on Good Friday, they shattered many a brittle, modern concrete building, but their worst effect was to crack the underlying clay and start the whole place sliding toward...
...nearly 150 children who had entered a posh hotel dining room asking to be served. A spirited old lady named Mrs. Peabody had also been arrested. With the publicity of these two events Hosea hoped to draw more support from the outside. However, local segregation was proving tough to crack. What little we Negro and white demonstrators achieved here would be a minor advance in the struggle for integration. What we white students contributed, moreover, was useful at the moment, but would lose its significance in the long run if we didn't follow up with more and more participation...
Crimson's Bruce Fowler will compete in the 200-yard breaststroke today and the 100-yard Saturday. Mahoney will get a crack at the three-metre springboard then...
...sign etched in blue flowers: "Francia y México par la Paz del Mundo-Viva Francia." Then out of a warm, clear sky whistled the white-and-blue-trimmed Caravelle carrying Charles de Gaulle. Down the steps he lumbered, over to a red dais, and to the first crack of a 21-gun salute, France's towering (6 ft. 4 in.) President leaned low and bussed 5-ft. 9-in. President Adolfo López Mateos on both cheeks. The crowd roared its delight...
Though WQXR has never subscribed to the NAB code, it is a member in good standing-and the only major one accepting whisky ads. About 80 nonmembers, mostly small stations, have carried commercials for Publicker Industries (Old Hickory, Inver House) since Publicker in 1961 decided to crack the silence barrier. The commercials are usually low-key, aired only at night and never on Sunday. Protests from listeners have been...