Word: crackly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...horse and the harness bells. As this mercilessly detailed biography shows, Frost was jealous and vindictive, a malicious gossip and a petty schemer. The man who told the world he had promises to keep broke them frequently for gain or spite. The Years of Triumph is not a first crack in Frost's lovingly fashioned public image. Before the poet's death, Randall Jarrell, writing with brilliance and flawless taste about Frost's best work, also took time to lament his "complacent wisdom and cast-iron whimsy" and poke fun at his platform personality-"the Only Genuine...
...England, Beardwood cut his teeth as a reporter for the Offaly Chronicle in Birr, County Offaly, and so was in perfect position to guide Stein through the intricacies of Irish politics, money and idiom- from RUC (for Royal Ulster Constabulary) to "Let's have a jar and a crack" (a drink and a talk...
...Army has warned that water pressure might crack the seals of steel jackets which enclose the concrete vaults soon after the valves are opened to let sea water flood the Briggs. Some gas might leak then, the Army said...
...thrust of the radical critique is to expose the University as a class institution, and to crack the facade of neutrality and disinterestedness which the heads of the University must maintain...
Died. Helen Rogers Reid, 87, president, then chairman of the board (1947-55) of the now-defunct New York Herald Tribune; in Manhattan. Wife of the Trib's Editor-President Ogden Reid, she made her name on the business side as a crack ad saleswoman who had, as one colleague put it, "the persistence of gravity." She went to work in 1918, was responsible for doubling linage by 1923, and after that headed the ad department until 1947, when she assumed command at the death of her husband. In politics, she continued the Trib's tradition of moderate...