Word: crackly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...screens were deliberately blacked out. There were only sounds: the condemned men shouting "Yaish el Hassan el Thani!" (Long live King Hassan the Second) and chanting the Moslem act of faith, which begins "La lllaha ilia Allah" (There is no God but God) just before they died. Then the crack of rifle fire, the angry shouts of onlookers. Before the picture returned, the witnesses spat on the crumpled bodies of the rebels-the ultimate Arab insult...
...ANGELES. We pull into the terminal at Hobart in southeastern Los Angeles, end of the 2,202-mile journey from Chicago. It has taken only 39 hours and 20 minutes, 40 minutes faster than scheduled - a trip faster than that of the Super Chief, the Santa Fe's crack passenger train. Twelve minutes after we stop, the first trailer has already been unloaded by a giant yellow straddle crane and driven away...
...while it looked as if the Murphys' world was truly charmed, but like so many other worlds, it fell apart in the early '30s. Gerald had to take over Mark Cross, which was a million dollars in debt. The Fitzgeralds' crack-up began in earnest; Hemingway began the drift from wife to wife. Then, in a terrible 18 months, both the Murphys' sons died, one of tuberculosis, the other of meningitis...
...crack investigative reporter for LIFE between 1967 and 1969, Smith wrote a two-part expose of the Mob that won an award from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism. Since joining our staff two years...
...center of a Proust cult. Until quite recently, many scorned the author as a homosexual, atheistic, hypochondriac aesthete. Also a very difficult writer. Even Mayor René Compère, 67, a pert little man who takes visitors on a lecture tour around the town, has yet to crack the gigantic set of Proust's works that is prominently displayed in his office. Compère argues that les Proustiens, as the literary-minded tourists are known, are not even good for business. Says the mayor: 'They come from some place, eat a madeleine...