Word: crackly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...joints, peep shows and streetwalkers, was designated an Adult Entertainment District, and police tended to ignore "victimless crime." But in a few months the rate of street solicitation and crime, along with police corruption, rose alarmingly. After a Harvard football player was stabbed to death, the authorities had to crack down again...
...TIME last week learned that a memorandum drafted in August by GSA Special Counsel for Investigation Vincent Alto raises questions about Griffin's conduct at the GSA. The memo describes Griffin as trying in 1975 and 1976 to undermine the GSA's efforts to crack down on corruption and as harassing a GSA employee who would not go along...
...play later Harvard was right back in the game. After Dave Kinney fielded the kick-off at the 27-yd, line, Brown called "aces left, full loose 27 veer pick crack on the quick count" in the huddle. Wayne Moore took the hand-off, accelerated around right end, cut back against the grain, dodged several tacklers, and then gambolled 83 yards to the endzone to the Crimson to within two points, 14-12. Harvard tried to knot the score with a two-point conversion of its own, but failed when Brown rolled right and lateraled to Moore who was stopped...
...Wednesday, for instance, the President and Rosalynn strolled through the woods with Begin and his wife Aliza. Thursday evening, the delegates attended a 45-minute performance on the parade field of the U.S. Marine Corps's Drum and Bugle Corps and the Marines' crack silent drill team. Although Carter immensely enjoyed the show, its blatantly martial tone seemed to surprise both Begin and Sadat. Following the performance, the Carters were hosts at a reception at Laurel Lodge for the delegations. All this contributed to such a soothing atmosphere that Begin, in a telephone conversation with aides in Jerusalem...
...supply of U.S. arms and military training--both because of America's economic interest in Iranian oil, and because Iran has been perceived as a solid anti-communist bulwark in the ideologically mercurial Middle East. (Last weekend, President Carter phoned the Shah to express support for his police crack-down...