Word: crackly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...inspection listed the mid-Manhattan Yale Club as in violation of the city health code when it discovered mouse excreta on the premises and splinters in its cutting boards. Quipped Yale Alumnus Dick Cavett ('58): "Next thing we'll hear is that the Yale Bowl has a crack...
...first acts was to crack down on corruption and inefficiency in the Kuomintang's old guard, even clapping his father's former secretary in prison. In an attempt to win support among the often disgruntled natives of Taiwan, who make up 90% of the island's population, he has brought many Taiwanese into positions of responsibility, raising two to major Cabinet posts. He has also permitted a relaxation in the K.M.T.'s ruthless demand of blind obedience. The government these days comes in for lively scolding from youthful and dynamic critics such as Chang Chun-hung...
...more than ten years we have been swamped in a glutinous flow of propaganda about art as investment. It oozes from every crack in our visual culture and its molds proliferate on every class and kind of object, from medieval ivories to Dogon totems, from a sepia drawing by Rembrandt to a Deruta pot or a Motherwell collage. There is practically no work of art immune to it, and its effects on the perception of art have been, in general, disastrous. The problem is not simply that art costs money; it always has. Peter Wilson, the genial and astute entrepreneur...
...United States Squash Raquets Association, showed throughout the match. He was unperturbed by Whitman's numerous "let" calls during the first two games. However, during the second game Whitman disputed a "let" call by Poor on a ball which Whitman hit. Poor claimed the ball struck the crack of the door...
...crack financial man, Casey says, "My job will be to create a climate for change...