Word: crackly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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University officials made it very clear this week that their plans to deal with growing inflation will bite deep into student pocketbooks: For graduate students, it was the Faculty Council's approval Wednesday of an all-new, crack-down tuition policy for those who don't pay tuition, and for undergraduates it was Dean Rosovsky's startling prediction of a $600 hike next year in student fees...
...tread like "I was once so poor I used to walk into a restaurant and play for an omelette--what a tough crowd that was." Misch was fortunate enough this night to have a shill blurt out a well-timed "If you're funny enough--any egg will crack up," to obscure the dreaded silence. But he'd do best to refrain from the clinkers and stick with his own fresh material. In a comic field sorely needing new humor. Misch seems to have his own little monopoly of laughs...
After 35 years of officially imposed silence, Winterbotham reveals in The Ultra Secret that British intelligence did crack the code. From 1939 onward Churchill and later Roosevelt, Eisenhower and other Allied leaders were virtually reading over Hitler's shoulder. The whole system of deciphering Enigma's signals and relaying the intelligence was called the Ultra Operation. It sometimes produced translated copies of Hitler's orders to his generals within an hour of their original transmission. Little wonder that Churchill once called Ultra "my most secret weapon...
Besides, while the British army is still rounding up I.R.A. terrorists in Ulster, English police have so far failed to crack any of the tiny "active service units" that have brought the bloody civil war across the Irish Sea to England. In London, Home Secretary Roy Jenkins at week's end pledged "emergency legislation" to combat the terrorists...
Freedom of Information Act is alive, well and helping information seekers to blast facts out of the Washington bureaucracy just as it was supposed to. Though information seekers have begun to crack the stone wall of official secrecy, they have still been meeting adamantine resistance. Many Government bureaucracies have continued to use all available weapons, tactics, loopholes and weaknesses in the law to maintain their sheltered ways...