Word: cracks
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Actually, the first crack in the dam was when Lester ("Pres") Young introduced a new school of vibratoless tone and long, extended solo lines. Young was Hawkins' strongest challenger, and it was Pres who begat Getz and the cool school. Most musicians consider Hawkins and Young the two great tenor influences...
...countries, and makes the usual vow to regain "sacred Arab rights in Palestine." The promise of mutual military support strengthens the regimes of both Saud and Hussein. By itself. Saud's ragtag soldiery would be of little use in a full-scale war, but Hussein's crack, British-trained Arab Legion is the best of all the Arab armies...
Three Laps Underwater. Daughter of Los Angeles Ear Surgeon Howard Payne House, towheaded Carolyn is almost blind in her left eye (a congenital defect) and wears a contact lens in her right eye. But her eye trouble has never hampered her swimming-or kept her from taking a crack at any other sport that struck her tomboy's fancy. "At seven," says her brother Ken, 22, "she could swim three laps of the family pool underwater without coming up for air. At eight, she played center for both of our neighborhood football teams. She'd center...
...policeman!" cried the victim. "Drop that club!" The mugger stared for a moment in astonishment, then turned and ran. The cop, Otto Hirsch, fired once into the air, shot again and nicked him in the side. In a few moments, Hirsch and fellow members of St. Louis' crack decoy squad had rounded up the mugger and three cronies...
Trying to deal with their burgeoning bureaucracy*- crack New Zealanders, is "like boring a hole through treacle." Now the nation is considering a solution to government regimentation and pettifoggery. Last week, after a year of deliberation, New Zealand was pressing ahead with plans for a new, independent government official who will act as a civic watchdog in much the same fashion as the famed, 153-year-old Swedish institution known as the ombudsman, or grievance...