Word: crackly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Since March, between 30 and 40 dissidents have been arrested in a rather clumsy campaign by Chinese security officials to crack down on a small but vocal free speech movement that was encouraged inadvertently by Vice Premier Deng Xiaoping. A year ago, Deng declared: "If the masses feel some anger, we must let them express it." Since then, to the dismay of China's leadership, dissidents have pasted up posters on democracy wall bluntly attacking the authoritarianism of the regime. New underground magazines have sprung up; they contain detailed reports on the horrendous conditions in Chinese prisons as well...
Along a large crack, corresponding layers of rock were offset vertically-in some places by as much as 1,000 meters (3,300 ft.). In other words, a break had occurred and some of the rock sank. Apparently, at some time in the remote past, the rock had been uplifted-perhaps by volcanism...
Only John Sears managed to crack the council lineup, ousting either Patrick McDonough or Louise Day Hicks, who were separated by five votes with only absentee ballots left to be counted...
Struggling to crack down on currencies without a country...
...crack down on such borrowing, the Fed this month began requiring that banks in the U.S., including U.S. branches of foreign banks, keep 8% of their new borrowings from the Eurodollar market in reserve; thus they can lend out only 92½ of each new Eurodollar. But U.S. corporations have already found a way to avoid the regulations. They can borrow Eurodollars from a foreign bank at about 1% lower rates...