Word: crackly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...minutes after taking off from Barbados airport on Oct. 6, the pilot of Cubana de Aviación Flight 455 radioed that there had been an explosion on his plane and that he was heading back. He never made it. Carrying 73 passengers and crew, including Cuba's crack Olympic fencing team, the flaming DC-8 nosedived into the Caribbean. There were no survivors...
...jocks in the tweed jackets and LaCoste shirts, for though the multiflex can resemble a monkey-flex at times (with Bonzo the Chimp running post patterns), there is a horde of talented gridders playing Saturday's heroes for all eight Ivy teams providing all the grunts, second efforts and crack-back blocks that the Big Ten, Big Eight, or Big Sadist football fan craves...
...move that could have a major impact on all University performing organizations, but that was directed most specifically at HRO, Archie C. Epps III, dean of students, last week said that he would ask CHUL to crack down on the number of non-Harvard musicians...
Epps disputed Yannatos's charge, saying "This is not analogous to a classroom situation. We are admitting and recruiting talented musicians and actors and they deserve first crack at activities...
...vitriol, the candidates had few disagreements of substance. Indeed, whichever Helmut won, it seemed there would be no fundamental change in West Germany's domestic or foreign policy. Both promised to lower unemployment (current jobless rate: 3.9%), raise pensions, maintain but not significantly expand other social services, crack down on terrorists, pursue detente with East Germany on more of a quid pro quo basis, continue close ties with the U.S., and lobby in other West European capitals for a stronger NATO. Their only substantive difference was over the issue of corporate-tax cuts, which Kohl favored and Schmidt dismissed...