Word: cracks
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...right size? Some older women are chronically critical, and his is a big problem to children trying to please mother." Husbands and wives often get into bitter Christmas wrangles over which parent to visit or invite, and reunions are not always the joyous occasions Christmas cards crack them...
...gamblers, and Australia is too far to travel to see a decent tennis match. Even baseball, the sportswriters' "national pastime," can be a slow-motion bore: finger resin bag, touch cap, look for sign, shake head, shake again, check first, big sigh, wind up, finally pitch. Crack! Foul ball-and the fans could be halfway to Chicago by jet. Even a good thing palls when the games go on day after day for six months. Football's pros are shrewder: they perform just once a week, 14 times a season, and it is often standing room only. Last...
...crack team of CBS foreign correspondents will discuss their worldwide newsbeats today at 12 noon at a luncheon at the Bradford Hotel in Boston. Tickets for the discussion part of the program only are available at the door at special student rates. The visit is sponsored by the Boston Chamber of Commerce and station WEEI...
When the Army called up 119,000 reservists and National Guardsmen during the 1961 Berlin crisis, Defense Secretary Robert McNamara was appalled at the results. The civilian soldiers stood at a pitiful average of 65% of authorized combat strength. Several supposedly crack divisions were hopelessly out of training, and many of the troops spent most of their time writing Congressmen and complaining to newsmen about the indignity of being summoned to duty. Then and there, McNamara vowed to overhaul and shape up the nation's reserve ranks. Last week he got into action...
...gauze, scarves or handkerchiefs. For a time, in fact, they looked somewhat like bandits fleeing the bobbies. Some were doing precisely that. Smash-and-grab robbers used the occasion to carry off thousands of pounds worth of loot from London's jewelers and banks. Scotland Yard's crack Flying Squad, reduced to a crawl, was virtually powerless to stop them...