Word: crackly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...major source of motivation for the Crimson yesterday was its search for respect in the world of women's soccer. Despite undefeated play in the Ivy League and a tie to top 15 Hartford, Harvard had yet to crack the top 20 in the rankings this season...
...audience watched attentively as Christopher J. Shim '02 approached his wooden target. In a quick spin of motion, his foot flew up and made contact with a resounding crack...
...Louisiana [AMERICAN SCENE, Aug. 30] has prompted me to write. I work with Johannesburg's street children. I talk to them about their lives and how rap music relates to the young people on the streets. I do not believe that rappers' recordings "celebrate gunfights, misogyny and the crack trade," as Gwynne wrote. They are merely drawing our attention to ghetto life and the ugly truth of it. In the ghetto you have to be tough or die. I know from being with these people that they are just as affectionate and frightened as everybody else. SAFFRON BAGGALLAY Johannesburg...
...first I thought it would just go away--like Tickle Me Elmo and other such kiddy fads. But oh no, this one has gotten out of control. What the hell is Pokmon? Why is it infiltrating school cafeterias, slumber parties, Saturday morning television and (very soon) movie theatres? Our crack team will dive inside the insidious world of the Japanimation dinos (or whatever they are) and surface with a report in the near future...
...retirement in 1984 he had a trove of the KGB's deepest secrets, including agent names and accounts of assassinations and covert actions. In 1992 he arranged for British intelligence to whisk him, his family and his trunks of paper to safety. Spy hunters and prosecutors got first crack at the papers, and according to Mitrokhin's co-author, Cambridge University historian Christopher Andrew, a dozen probes of old spies are still active. Mitrokhin wanted to publish his files to reveal to the world the paranoia, cynicism and abuse endemic in Soviet power--the ultimate dissent from a system that...