Word: crackly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...hostility of men, often veiled, on occasion brutally frank. Says one Los Angeles feminist: "For some women, getting involved in the movement may be an irreversible process. There is no turning back for many of them, and if their marriages are bad to begin with, they sometimes crack up. I feel like warning women their lives are going to change and there may be prices...
...during the 1950s spent eight years in prison for placing his Slovak nationalism ahead of his allegiance to Communism. Ever since he succeeded Dubček in 1969, he has persistently claimed that he would not tolerate political trials. Apparently he has been under pressure from the Russians to crack down on would-be reformers; last month, an editorial in Pravda warned of the "mortal danger" of "counterrevolution in Czechoslovakia...
...immediate public consumption are justifiable. These are always impersonal records, however; their saving grace is usually cleverness and humor, and they don't give the impression of being compiled because the author was too lazy or indifferent to incorporate the material into other work. Fitzgerald's aphorisms in The Crack-Up and Samuel Butler's Notebooks are notable examples. But when a person is merely writing about his personal experience in a diary he knows will be read during his lifetime, the result should be approached with great suspicion. Consciously or unconsciously, he has some self-serving angle which vitiates...
Gulesarian said that he would give employees laid off due to the purchase of the Continental "first crack at jobs that open up" at the Sheraton...
...earning people and their accountants are already taking prudent looks ahead to the returns due in 1973. Reason: after a series of changes over the past two years, their earnings on Jan. 1 became fully subject to important new anti-loophole laws. These were passed by Congress primarily to crack down on a few persons with incomes of more than $200,000 who legally, through various gift and investment devices, get away with paying no income taxes. The new rules also close off some broad tax avenues long favored by entertainers, athletes, top executives and others in high brackets...