Word: crackly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...pull back the main line of defense from Quang Tri and probably Thua Thien provinces down to the coastal city of Danang. General Truong had already lost the backbone of his defense the week before when Thieu ordered 4,000 men of South Viet Nam's crack airborne division back to their original base headquarters near Saigon's Tan Son Nhut airport. Thieu felt it necessary to beef up the defense of the capital, just in case the Communists decided to concentrate their forces on Saigon itself. The transfer of the troops sent a shock wave through...
...office assesses the priorities for Bok, tells groups whom to call and decides who has first crack at a particular donor. The East Asian drive is typical of the effort Peterson expects to mount in the future. He is not particularly optimistic about the prospects of increased Japanese contributing--"we might even think we won't be more successful at all in Japan," Peterson says. But he is not giving up on international fund-raising...
...shallow and indifferent enterprise. The Prisoner of Second Avenue is a listless nervous-breakdown farce, adapted by Neil Simon from his play about the traumas and indignities of living in Manhattan. Jack Lemmon, unwired and wrung out, appears as an lid executive who loses his job and proceeds to crack under all the usual New York tensions, from unruly cab drivers to walls that crack like eggshells, from vicious neighbors to violence in Central Park. Bancroft plays his wife, loving and impatient and reasonably brave, who sees him through the crisis and begins to pick up some of his anxieties...
Foremost in OPEC planners' minds as they prepare for these meetings will be what they regard-not inaccurately -as the strategy of the consuming countries to crack the cartel's price front. Last week, for example, delegates of the 18 oil-consuming nations that make up the International Energy Agency met in Paris to work out their own position regarding the oil states. The U.S. position has been that it would not attend the April meeting unless it had strong backing within the IEA on at least one or two proposals aimed at helping to free the industrial...
Everytime I hear the crack of the whip My blood run cold I do remember on a slave ship How they brutalized my very soul...