Word: crackly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...instance, "nationalization" was never mentioned in the Queen's speech, though Labor's election manifesto had promised to nationalize many of Britain's major industries, including shipbuilding, trucking and construction. The only reference to an extension of public ownership was a cautiously worded promise to crack down on property speculators...
...with only $1,000 can buy a piece of paper from a savings bank yielding 7.08%-but unlike the big investor, he must tie up his money for at least 2½ years. Now, however, at least four mutual funds have been organized to give the small investor a crack at the high yields-a move that seems likely to put them into head-on competition with savings banks, savings and loan organizations and other thrift institutions for small savings...
...because she concluded that prospects for a blind woman lawyer were almost impossible. She got into the securities business by answering an ad from a go-go mutual fund that wanted analyst trainees without experience. As a girl, she had played basketball by positioning her feet on a crack in the court and shooting from memory. Now, she still operates from memory. Four hours each day and nine hours on Saturday she listens to readers recite the volumes of technical detail about companies and the economy that she must evaluate to make recommendations for clients...
...crack about Shakespeare criticism goes "if we wish to see the force of human genius, we should study Shakespeare; if we wish to see the insignificance of human learning, we may study his commentators" and the Riverside essays do little to change this state of affairs. Anne Barton's introductions to the comedies are fair-minded but not very exciting. Herschel Baker's pieces are eloquent though they concentrate on literary influence rather than discussion of character. The essays by Frank Kermode bear all the marks of a penetrating intelligence hamstrung by external restrictions. This sense of containment is clearest...
...workers needed a union. After all, he claimed, he paid well ($1.70 an hour to start, lO? above the federal minimum wage) and provided a clean, bright, air-conditioned factory. On the other side, the Amalgamated was eager to organize Farah Manufacturing as an opening wedge to crack the dozens of clothing manufacturers in the Southwest that bask in a non-union atmosphere. Union organizers were able to capitalize on a genuine labor grievance. Farah's mostly Mexican-American workers complained that they were held to unreasonable production quotas that often forced them to cut short their lunch hours...