Word: crackly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...went into a gray-haired woman's apartment that had an inch-wide crack running across the ceiling. I tried to tell her that with rent control, she could force the landlord to abide by the housing code, She could make him fix the crack...
...hand and took her next door to her neighbors, where, of course, she had never been. In this atomistic society, you are crammed into your own room and told not to visit your neighbor. When the neighbors answered, we went inside and looked at their ceiling. The crack continued all the way across their room...
...Contractor, gives emphatic proof that his gifts are not always going to be swamped). As two inmates in the twilight of sanity and senility, Gielgud and Richardson are living textbooks of stagecraft, distilling decades of experience into the flourish of a cane, the fumbling of a card trick, the crack of a voice. Their reading of a passage like the following raises tiny lyrical fragments to a level of Mozartean serenity...
...bond was forming between us. I could almost watch it growing stronger daily. Earlier, when they clicked their weapons in the darkness, I would instinctively catch my breath, never quite sure what would happen next. After a week, the windows came open a tiny crack, and finally they were flung open altogether. Increasingly, I was left alone for long periods. After ten days, the soldiers gave me a pair of sandals-or gap, as I learned to call them-cut from an old automobile tire. The North Vietnamese soldier who presented them to me told me they were "sandals...
...filing cabinet full of academic-achievement tests, a carton of mimeographed math and reading drills, and a pile of pocket-size dictionaries. "This is our school," he says. In the past five years, the cart's contents have brought 2,500 school dropouts all they need to crack the barrier between them and a better job: a high school equivalency diploma...